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   Lawrence D'Oliveiro to Thomas Koenig   
   Re: =?UTF-8?B?4oCcSW1hZ2XigJ0gPSDigJxQcm   
   26 Feb 24 20:25:16   
   
   From: ldo@nz.invalid   
      
   On Mon, 26 Feb 2024 17:50:05 -0000 (UTC), Thomas Koenig wrote:   
      
   > Lawrence D'Oliveiro  schrieb:   
   >   
   >> but a clue appears in the 2018 spec, section 11.4, “STOP and ERROR STOP   
   >> statements”:   
   >>   
   >>     When an image is terminated by a STOP or ERROR STOP statement, its   
   >>     stop code, if any, is made available in a processor-dependent   
   >>     manner. If the stop-code is an integer, it is recommended that the   
   >>     value be used as the process exit status, if the processor supports   
   >>     that concept.   
   >>   
   >> So an image “terminates”, and returns a process “exit status”; this   
   >> must mean that an “image” is equivalent to a “process”.   
   >   
   > No.   
      
   But a process can only have one exit status, and an image can only have   
   one stop code. If there is not a 1:1 correspondence between them, then   
   what?   
      
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