Where does the main() function return its value in the C language?

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It returns a value to whichever program/funcation/application/ started it up. If you started it from a shell, it returns the value to the shell. If you started it from an IDE (i.e. Visual Studio), then the return code is sent to Visual Studio. If you double clicked an executable on the desktop... well,...
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It returns a value to whichever program/funcation/application/ started it up. If you started it from a shell, it returns the value to the shell. If you started it from an IDE (i.e. Visual Studio), then the return code is sent to Visual Studio. If you double clicked an executable on the desktop... well, it gets returned to whichever Windows process spawned him. Hope this helps in other words C's main function returns an int... that int goes to the program which executed it (the parent process) as an exit status code. read less
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main() function returns the values to the environment from where you called that. If you called from shell then to shell, if from IDE then to the IDE and if you double clicked to exe then to the executable on where you kept.
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