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Date:      Mon, 2 Sep 1996 04:46:38 +1000
From:      Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au>
To:        kpneal@pobox.com, terry@lambert.org
Cc:        durham@phaeton.artisoft.com, hackers@FreeBSD.org, nate@mt.sri.com, richmond@cronus.oanet.com, sos@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: Specs on a Hitachi CM2085me monitor anybody ??
Message-ID:  <199609011846.EAA14848@godzilla.zeta.org.au>

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>I'm going to a University that teaches "void main(void)" in it's 100-level
>CSC (CS is crop-science here, YES I am in the south!) programming class.
>Since 114 is the alternative to Chemistry II for many people, 95% of the
>people in CSC 114 will never take another programming class again. This 
>makes it "OK" to teach void main here (or so I am told, I think that's 
>bull).

`void main(void)' is Standard C in a freestanding environment.
BSD4.4Lite comes close to using it (it uses `void main(void *framep')).
It's surprising that an introductory course gets far enough to teach
the difference between freestanding and hosted environments :-).

Bruce



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