view admin/notes/exit-value @ 87315:34b619baa980

Replace all instances of string-to-int with string-to-number, insert-string with insert, and read-input with read-string. (top-level): No need to require imenu, reporter, dinotrace, vc, font-lock when compiling. Always require compile. Relegate remaining compatibility cruft to XEmacs. Don't require font-lock. (verilog-version): Remove superfluous concat. (dinotrace-unannotate-all, zmacs-activate-region) (customize-apropos): No need to define. (verilog-regexp-opt): On Emacs, just make it an alias for regexp-opt. (verilog-font-lock-keywords, verilog-font-lock-keywords-1) (verilog-font-lock-keywords-2, verilog-font-lock-keywords-3) (verilog-startup-message-displayed): These are variables, not constants. (verilog-batch-execute-func, verilog-auto-inst) (verilog-auto-inst-param): Use mapc rather than mapcar. (sigs-in, sigs-inout, sigs-out): Define for compiler rather than actually defining. (verilog-modi-get-decls, verilog-modi-get-sub-decls) (verilog-modi-get-outputs, verilog-modi-get-inouts) (verilog-modi-get-inputs, verilog-modi-get-wires) (verilog-modi-get-regs, verilog-modi-get-assigns) (verilog-modi-get-consts, verilog-modi-get-gparams) (verilog-modi-get-sub-outputs, verilog-modi-get-sub-inouts) (verilog-modi-get-sub-inputs): Move inline functions earlier in the file. (sigs-in, sigs-out): Don't declare multiple times. (got-sig, got-rvalue, uses-delayed): Define for compiler with just `defvar'. (verilog-auto): Call dinotrace-unannotate-all only if bound. (verilog-module-inside-filename-p): No need to wrap fboundp test in condition-case. (reporter-submit-bug-report): Autoload it. (verilog-mark-defun): Call zmacs-activate-region only if bound. (verilog-font-customize): Call customize-apropos only if bound. (verilog-getopt-flags, verilog-auto-reeval-locals): Use make-local-variable rather than make-variable-buffer-local. (verilog-company, verilog-project, verilog-modi-cache-list): Move make-variable-buffer-local calls to top-level. (font-lock-defaults-alist): Don't define it. (verilog-need-fld): Remove. (verilog-font-lock-init): Don't set font-lock-defaults-alist. (verilog-mode): Only call make-local-hook on XEmacs. Set font-lock-defaults rather than using verilog-font-lock-init.

ttn 2004-05-09

The exit value of a program returning to the shell on unixoid systems is
typically 0 for success, and non-0 (such as 1) for failure.  For vms it is
odd (1,3,5...) for success, even (0,2,4...) for failure.

This holds from the point of view of the "shell" (in quotes because vms has a
different dispatch model that is not explained further here).

From the point of view of the program, nowadays stdlib.h on both type of
systems provides macros `EXIT_SUCCESS' and `EXIT_FAILURE' that should DTRT.

NB: The numerical values of these macros DO NOT need to fulfill the the exit
value requirements outlined in the first paragraph!  That is the job of the
`exit' function.  Thus, this kind of construct shows misunderstanding:

   #ifdef VMS
      exit (1);
   #else
      exit (0);
   #endif

Values aside from EXIT_SUCCESS and EXIT_FAILURE are tricky.



ttn 2004-05-12

Values aside from EXIT_SUCCESS and EXIT_FAILURE can be used to indicate
finer gradations of failure.  If this is the only information available
to the caller, clamping such values to EXIT_FAILURE loses information.
If there are other ways to indicate the problem to the caller (such as
a message to stderr) it may be ok to clamp.  In all cases, it is the
relationship between the program and its caller that must be examined.
[Insert ZAMM quote here.]