Subject: Re: C
From: Daniel E. White (igor@olg.com)
Date: Thu Jan 17 2002 - 06:38:21 MST
Also, by my experience, "main" is sort of a reserved function name.
The full prototype for main is:
int main ( int argc, char *argv[] ) ;
Also, in my experience, you can exclude/ignore the return type and/or the arguments, but do not try to change them. That would be my guess as to why the first example would bomb.
>If you don't specify a return type, C assumes int. And () means
>zero or more parameters of any type. Your main's are not the
>same. If a function's return type is not void, most "modern"
>compilers will yell at you if there's no return. Example #2
>returns some garbage value. I don't know if it's "standard",
>but I write main functions as
>
> #include <stdio.h>
> #include <stdlib.h> /* for exit() */
>
> void main() {
> printf("whatever\n");
> exit(0);
> }
>
>david wright wrote:
>>
>> # include <stdio.h>
>>
>> int main (void)
>> {
>> printf ("whatever\n");
>> return 0;
>> }
>>
>> --------------------- example #2
>>
>> # include <stdio.h>
>>
>> main(){
>> printf ("whatever\n");
>> }
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