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Author	MrTroble
Recipients	MrTroble, paul.moore, steve.dower, tim.golden, zach.ware
Date	2020-07-24.15:54:41
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Message-id	<1595606081.95.0.551964515363.issue41386@roundup.psfhosted.org>
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Following problem occurred. A C style program can have negative return codes. However this is not correctly implemented in the Windows API. Therefore it is being returned as unsigned long by the API hence it leads to ambiguity while comparing return codes. For reference regarding this topic see: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/cpp/cpp/main-function-command-line-args?redirectedfrom=MSDN&view=vs-2019 https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/win32/api/processthreadsapi/nf-processthreadsapi-getexitcodeprocess I suggest a

Following problem occurred.

A C style program can have negative return codes. However this is not correctly implemented in the Windows API. Therefore it is being returned as unsigned long by the API hence it leads to ambiguity while comparing return codes.

For reference regarding this topic see:
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/cpp/cpp/main-function-command-line-args?redirectedfrom=MSDN&view=vs-2019
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/win32/api/processthreadsapi/nf-processthreadsapi-getexitcodeprocess

I suggest a

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