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From: Narvi <narvi@haldjas.folklore.ee>
To: "Daniel O'Callaghan" <danny@panda.hilink.com.au>
cc: Zach Heilig <zach@blizzard.gaffaneys.com>,
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Subject: Re: void main
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On Wed, 4 Sep 1996, Daniel O'Callaghan wrote:

> 
> 
> On 4 Sep 1996, Zach Heilig wrote:

[snip]

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

And you *never* should end a function with only a closing braket. 
*Allways* use return (or exit()). I know at least one C compiler that 
will always complain (or even generate not too right) code if you do 
so. 

> 
> 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.
> 

Me too. But for test programs of no more than 1 pg in lenght. If they 
start to be longer, being correct is worth the effort.

	Sander

> Danny
>