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C++ Primer book i read says that
The value returned from main is accessed in a system dependent manner.
On both UNIX and Windows systems, afar executing the program you must
issue an appropriate echo command. On UNIX we obtain the status by
echo $?
So, if the program is
int main ()
{
return -88;
}
Why does echo $? not return it? (168 is printed upon echo)
It does, sort of. It’ll convert the value to an unsigned 8-bit value, though, which is 256 − 88 = 168. That’s part of the system-dependent mannerism.