https://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=105335
--- Comment #3 from LIU Hao <lh_mouse at 126 dot com> --- Windows uses a full-width 32-bit exit status, but there is no standard convention for them. 1. If a process has exited successfully, the status is zero. This matches POSIX. 2. If a process has exited due to a fault, the status is an enumeration of `NTSTATUS`, for example it's `0xC000001D` for illegal instructions, and `0xC0000005` for invalid memory access, and so on. The guarantee of these codes is that the lowest byte is never zero. 3. The MSYS2 bash (N.B. I don't know whether they have made such behavior different from Cygwin, but I suspect not) checks whether a child process exits successfully. If not, and the `-e` option is passed, it exits with `(SIGNAL << 8) | (STATUS & 0xFF)`, where `SIGNAL` is the same with Linux, and in the case of normal exit, `STATUS` is the lowest byte passed to `exit()`, which is also the same with Linux. It's probably not necessary to make the exit status very precise for describing the signal for this circumstance.
