Is it possible to get the exit code from a subshell?

Question

Let\'s imagine I have a bash script, where I call this:

bash -c \"some_command\"
do something with code of some_command here

Is it possible to

Answer 1

$? will contain the return code of some_command just as usual.

Of course it might also contain a code from bash, in case something went wrong before your command could even be executed (wrong filename, whatnot).