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From: cmf@obie.cis.pitt.edu (Carl M. Fongheiser)
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Subject: Re: (* func)(fred, bert)
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Date: 29 Nov 89 23:14:40 GMT
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In article <2085@tukki.jyu.fi> tarvaine@tukki.jyu.fi (Tapani Tarvainen) writes:
>>Can main() return 0 (which is certainly not an odd number) safely?
>
>Safely, yes -- but it'll give an error message
>
>%NONAME-W-NOMSG, Message number 00000000
>
>which may not be dangerous but it sure is annoying.

On the version of VMS we run (5.1), it doesn't print any message.  As
Doug Gwyn said, they did fix it.  I can't say for certain that it was
fixed in 5.0, but it definitely wasn't in 4.7.

Note that this has *nothing* to do with the version of C you have on your
machine.  The C run-time is part of VMS.

>Isn't VMS wonderful with C?  :-(

It's getting better.

				Carl Fongheiser
				cmf@unix.cis.pitt.edu