From: Erik Max Francis <max AT alcyone DOT com>
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Subject: Re: void main ?
Date: Thu, 03 Jul 1997 07:32:25 -0700
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Giovanni Resta wrote:

> I always declared main as void in the past 5 years and
> I never get an error, so I'm curious about the topic.
> (I must admit that I never had to test the 'exit code' of a program,
> maybe that can change things)

There are only two valid ANSI C prototypes for main:

    int main(void);
    int main(int argc, char *argv[]); /* the names of the arguments can 
                                         vary, of course */

This is clearly indicated in section 5.1.2.2.1 of the ANSI C standard.

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