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Date: Wed, 04 Sep 1996 07:27:14 -0400
To: "Daniel O'Callaghan" <danny@panda.hilink.com.au>
From: "Kevin P. Neal" <kpneal@pobox.com>
Subject: Re: void main
Cc: Zach Heilig <zach@blizzard.gaffaneys.com>,
        Paul DuBois <dubois@primate.wisc.edu>, hackers@freebsd.org
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At 07:33 PM 9/4/96 +1000, Daniel O'Callaghan wrote:
>
>
>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.

Wait, that would cause (on a compiler that wasn't hacked to avoid this problem)
your programs to return random numbers to the shell.

You would return random numbers to the shell to avoid typing, like, 12 key
strokes?
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