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From: Sergey Babkin <babkin@bellatlantic.net>
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To: Mark Murray <mark@grondar.za>
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Subject: Re: Are prototypes for main() illegal by any standard ? (was Re:
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Mark Murray wrote:
> 
> This I do not understand. :-)
> 
> AFAIK, this is perfectly legal C:
> 
> /* begin */
> void printf(char *, ...)
> 
> void main(void)
> {
>         printf("Hello world");
> }
> /* end */
> 
> And it should compile warning-free and run without error. Agreed
> that the style sucks, but it is _legal_ - and any compiler's prior

No, it's completely wrong. The return type of main() is int. 
Otherwise you get garbage for the exit code.

-SB

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