Subject: Re: bug#6430: Emacs WINDOWS truncates exit status of processes to 8 bits

From: Eli Zaretskii <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 15 Jun 2016 21:50:28 +0300

> From: Óscar Fuentes <[email-masked]>
> Cc: [email-masked],  [email-masked],  [email-masked]
> Date: Wed, 15 Jun 2016 20:22:25 +0200
> 
> A process can return any value on the 32 bit range.

It can, but using those 2 bits for that would be silly, because doing
so will cause the exit code be interpreted as exit due to a fatal
error.