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Date:      Mon, 28 May 2001 14:59:44 +0300
From:      Peter Pentchev <roam@orbitel.bg>
To:        Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au>
Cc:        Sheldon Hearn <sheldonh@uunet.co.za>, Dima Dorfman <dd@FreeBSD.org>, cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: cvs commit: src/usr.bin/jot Makefile jot.c
Message-ID:  <20010528145944.F588@ringworld.oblivion.bg>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0105282121480.1612-100000@besplex.bde.org>; from bde@zeta.org.au on Mon, May 28, 2001 at 09:43:58PM %2B1000
References:  <50418.991042601@axl.fw.uunet.co.za> <Pine.BSF.4.21.0105282121480.1612-100000@besplex.bde.org>

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On Mon, May 28, 2001 at 09:43:58PM +1000, Bruce Evans wrote:
> On Mon, 28 May 2001, Sheldon Hearn wrote:
> 
> > On Sun, 27 May 2001 17:55:52 MST, Dima Dorfman wrote:
> > 
> > >   Modified files:
> > >     usr.bin/jot          Makefile jot.c 
> > >   Log:
> > >   Silence warnings and compile with WARNS=2 on i386 and alpha.
> > 
> > Since when do you have to add a prototype for main()?!
> 
> Since -Wmissing-prototypes was added to CFLAGS (by WARNS=2 or BDECFLAGS)
> to detect the potential error of not declaring extern functions in
> the right place (which is never in *.c).  main() is a special case,
> however.  It can't be declared in a header file in C because in the
> hosted (non-freestanding) case there are several valid but inconsistent
> prototypes for it:
> 
> 	int main(void);			/* required to work by ISO C90 */
> 	int main(int argc, char **argv);	/* same */
> 	int main(int argc, char **argv, char **envp);	/* optional POSIX */
> 	int main(anything);		/* optional implementation-defined */
> 
> gcc shouldn't warn about main() not being prototyped before it is
> defined even with -Wmissing-prototypes, but it currently warns about
> it if the definition is old-style.  gcc -ffreestanding also seems to
> be broken.  I think main() should not be special then, but it is.

In this case, gcc is not complaining about main() not being prototyped,
and it's not complaining because of -Wmissing-prototypes.  Rather, it's
-Wstrict-prototypes that's making it whine, because of a K&R declaration
without a previous prototype.  It whines about 'function declaration
is not a prototype', not about a missing prototype.

G'luck,
Peter

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