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At 07:08 PM 1/31/2001 -0500, Andrew Lumsdaine wrote:
IIRC, exit() takes an argument that is returned to the calling environment.

MPI does not assume a Unix or Windows environment.  Fortran only requires that the digits or string passed to STOP (the closest thing in Fortran to exit) be "accessible"; this is often interpreted as "printed on unit 6".  That's why I view this as a "quality of implementation" issue.

Bill