From:	loki AT nectar DOT com DOT au-remove (loki)
Newsgroups:	comp.os.msdos.djgpp
Subject:	Re: A nice trap! (2)
Date:	2 Jun 98 11:59:51 GMT
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John M. Aldrich <fighteer AT cs DOT com> wrote:

>BTW, your test program has some significant flaws.  First, main() must
>return an integer according to the ANSI standard.

  I agree, this is something a lot of people don't seem to realise, not that
I think it matters too much as long as people:
a) realise it technically isn't ANSI-compliant
b) don't try to get main() to return something!

> Second, library
>functions like printf() must be prototyped by including the appropriate
>standard header file, in this case stdio.h.

  I'm not sure about this.  I was under the impression that function
prototypes are not strictly required by ANSI.  Of course it's better to have
them so as to have better compile-time checking of function arguments, but I
didn't think it was strictly compulsory.


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