What does ExitCode -1073741502 mean?

Question

I\'m using the GetExitCodeProcess API to determine the exit reason for a process.

When my process fails, I get the error code -1073741502.

How can this value

Answer 1

Converted to hexadecimal, the value is 0xC0000142.
Windows NTSTATUS values show that your error code is STATUS_DLL_INIT_FAILED which is:

{DLL Initialization Failed} Initialization of the dynamic link library %hs failed. The process is terminating abnormally.