Return value range of the main function

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The standard doesn’t say. 0, EXIT_SUCCESS and EXIT_FAILURE have (sort of) specified meanings. Anything else depends on the implementation.

At the present time, most Unix-based systems only support 8-bit return values. Windows supports (at least) a 32-bit return value. I haven’t checked whether 64-bit Windows supports a 64-bit return value, but I rather doubt it, since even 64-bit Windows normally still uses a 32-bit int.

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