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Date: Wed, 4 Sep 1996 19:33:09 +1000 (EST)
From: "Daniel O'Callaghan" <danny@panda.hilink.com.au>
To: Zach Heilig <zach@blizzard.gaffaneys.com>
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Subject: Re: void main
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On 4 Sep 1996, Zach Heilig wrote:

> Paul DuBois <dubois@primate.wisc.edu> writes:
> 
> > Um, so what exactly is wrong with void main, other than that you don't
> > happen to like it?
> 
> Strictly speaking, there are exactly two correct versions of main():
> 
> int main(void);
> int main(int argc, char *argv[]);
[lots of other stuff deleted]

Well, if you do
int main(void)
{
	printf("Hello world\n");
}

and compile with gcc -Wall, gcc will complain about reaching the end of a 
non-void function.  Declaring main() to be void will remove that warning.
I use void main(void){...} a lot.

Danny