Proper way to exit with specific exit code?

[Jacob Carlborg]

On 2020-09-17 16:58, drathier wrote:
> What's the proper way to exit with a specific exit code?
> 
> I found a bunch of old threads discussing this, making sure destructors 
> run and the runtime terminates properly, all of which seemingly 
> concluding that it's sad that there isn't a way to do this easily, but 
> hopefully things have changed in the last 5-10 years and I'm just 
> missing the obvious solution.

The proper way is:

int main()
{
     return 42;
}

I highly recommend against trying to terminate the application using 
`exit` or any other way. Just let the control flow return back to the 
`main` function.

-- 
/Jacob Carlborg