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Comment: Updated references and clarified POSIX guarantees.

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\[[ISO/IEC PDTR 24772|AA. References#ISOBibliography#ISO/IEC PDTR 24772]\] Section 6.47, "REU Termination strategy," says:

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C99, Section 5.1.2.2.3, has this to say about returning from {{main()}} \[[ISO/IEC 9899:1999|AA. References#ISOBibliography#ISO/IEC 9899-1999]\]:

If the return type of the main function is a type compatible with int, a return from the initial call to the main function is equivalent to calling the exit function with the value returned by the main function as its argument; reaching the } that terminates the main function returns a value of 0. If the return type is not compatible with int, the termination status returned to the host environment is unspecified.

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<ac:structured-macro ac:name="anchor" ac:schema-version="1" ac:macro-id="6d3bda358fd7d5e4-46d86b1d-49df4b77-83a78810-5a4372c3d0b14aff75ca2309"><ac:parameter ac:name="">1</ac:parameter></ac:structured-macro>\[1\] Note that POSIX ^®^ strengthens the specification for {{_Exit()}} by prohibiting the function from flushing stream buffers. See the {{[documentation|http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/functions/_Exit.html]}} of the function in \[[IEEE Std 1003.1-2008|AA. References#IEEEBibliography#IEEE Std 1003.1-2008]\].

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#include <stdlib.h>
/* ... */

if (/* something really bad happened */) {
  _Exit(EXIT_FAILURE);
}

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<ac:structured-macro ac:name="anchor" ac:schema-version="1" ac:macro-id="859b11a31928cb65-e988cce3-45654c9d-b782931c-fe88c57aa99d3db19beab5ca"><ac:parameter ac:name="">2</ac:parameter></ac:structured-macro>\[2\] Unlike in the case of {{\_Exit()}}, POSIX ^®^ explicitly permits but does not require implementations to flush stream buffers. See the {{[documentation|http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/functions/abort.html]}} of the function in \[[IEEE Std 1003.1-2008|AA. References#IEEEBibliography#IEEE Std 1003.1-2008]\].

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\[[ISO/IEC 9899:1999|AA. References#ISOBibliography#ISO/IEC 9899-1999]\] Section 5.1.2.2.3, "Program termination," and Section 7.20.4, "Communication with the environment"
\[[ISO/IEC PDTR 24772|AA. References#ISOBibliography#ISO/IEC PDTR 24772]\] "REU Termination strategy"
\[[MITRE 07|AA. References#MITREBibliography#MITRE 07]\] [CWE ID 705|http://cwe.mitre.org/data/definitions/705.html], "Incorrect Control Flow Scoping"

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