Use of exit() function

Question

I want to know how and when can I use the exit() function like the program in my book:

#include

void main()
{
    int goals;
            


        

Answer 1

The exit function is declared in the stdlib header, so you need to have

#include <stdlib.h>

at the top of your program to be able to use exit.

Note also that exit takes an integer argument, so you can't call it like exit(), you have to call as exit(0) or exit(42). 0 usually means your program completed successfully, and nonzero values are used as error codes.

There are also predefined macros EXIT_SUCCESS and EXIT_FAILURE, e.g. exit(EXIT_SUCCESS);