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From: lehmann AT mathematik DOT th-darmstadt DOT de (Alexander Lehmann)
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp
Subject: Re: int main()
Date: 18 Jul 1996 13:11:40 GMT
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Orlando Andico (orly AT gibson DOT eee DOT upd DOT edu DOT ph) wrote:
: On Tue, 16 Jul 1996, Nissim Chudnoff wrote:

: > A while ago, there was a conversation about 'void main()' vs. 'int main()'
: > and I wondered if:
: > 
: > void main()
: > {
: >    exit(1);
: > }
: > 
: > Is the same as
: > 
: > int main()
: > {
: >    return(1);
: > }


: No it's not. The first method (at least, when I tested it under Linux)
: would return a random, nonzero (but small magnitude) positive integer,
: i.e. 2. This is normally used to signal an error condition so it's a bad
: idea to declare void main().

Actually, it should be, return x from main is the same as exit(x),
most startup code simply calls main with something like
exit(main(xxx)) (e.g. the djgpp startup code in /src/libc/crt0/crt1.c).

There may apear a compiler error if a prototype for main is defined,
but it usually isn't since main can be either (void) or (int, char *[])


bye, Alexander

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