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Re:Signed Char Lotte by lifthrasiir on Thursday April 01, 2021 @09:58PM (#26668398)
exit is a function returning void, which was traditionally coerced to 0 but anymore. Yusuke Endoh's patch [1] is available.

[1] https://mame.github.io/ioccc-ja-spoilers/patches/1990-tbr.pa...

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Re:Signed Char Lotte by byronr on Friday April 02, 2021 @10:36AM (#26671735)
No coercion needed. Pre-ANSI C does not have a void type, so unless otherwise specified the return type of a function defaults to int.
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