(j3.2006) Note 8.30 in F2008

[Bill Long]

On 6/10/13 9:50 PM, Malcolm Cohen wrote:

>>    Did we really mean that for ERROR STOP, where the default
>> exit status would seem more naturally to be the value corresponding to
>> "abort", such as 1, and not 0.
>
...

>
> You have a good point for "ERROR STOP" without a numeric stop-code, and I would
> suggest that the recommendation here should be a "nonzero processor-dependent
> value that indicates abnormal termination".
>

Is this something that needs a paper/feature request, or is it in the 
category of corrections from the Editor?

> Another thing is that these recommendations ought to be in normative text
> anyway.
>

This seems more clearly an Editorial issue.

Cheers,
Bill


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