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From: CMH117@PSUVM.BITNET (Charles Hannum)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: (* func)(fred, bert)
Message-ID: <89318.115828CMH117@PSUVM.BITNET>
Date: 14 Nov 89 16:58:28 GMT
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The only problem I can forsee with declaring main() as a void is that the
return value will be undefined.  While this will not be a problem on most
systems (since you probably wouldn't be checking the return code anyway),
I know that specifically on VM/CMS *ANY* non-zero return code is flagged
as an error, and rightly so.

As far as I'm concerned, main() should ***ALWAYS*** return a value, even
if it is merely a zero.

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