From: alain AT qnx DOT com (Alain Magloire)
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Subject: Re: `void main' in Gnu packages---?!
Date: 14 Jan 2000 01:07:18 GMT
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Jeff Williams (jeffw AT darwin DOT sfbr DOT org) wrote:
: Why do I see something like this:

: void
: main (argc, argv)
:      int argc;
:      char **argv;

: in some GNU packages (i.e., `void main' rather than `int main')?  Is it
: for some obscure backwards compatibility? I didn't get any complaints
: about this with my djgpp/gcc setup (but is that good or bad?, but my
: Solaris box at work complains, as follows:

: time.c: In function `main':
: time.c:633: warning: return type of `main' is not `int'
: make: *** [time.o] Error 1

: Duh.  Easy to fix, but why is it `void main' in the first place?

If you find this in any GNU programs consider it as a bug and report it to
the appropriate mailing list.  bug-gnu-utils AT gnu DOT org is a good start.

I'm certainly curious to know in which program/package, since most of the
GNU *utils are design to be use with Unix shells so the return
value of main is important when doing shell scripts.

Also, I don't have my ANSI C std at hand but, I think, ANSI C and the 
new C9x require that "int main ()".


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au revoir, alain
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