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From: e89hse@rigel.efd.lth.se
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Subject: Re: prototype my function, please
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Date: 6 Jun 90 00:40:39 GMT
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In article <239@taumet.COM>, steve@taumet.COM (Stephen Clamage) writes:
>In article <1990Jun2.091606.9125@druid.uucp> darcy@druid.UUCP (D'Arcy J.M. Cain) writes:
>> ...
>>#include <stdio.h>
>>int main(int argc, char **argv)
>>{
>>	printf("%s has %d arguments\n", *argv, argc);
>>	exit(0);
>>}
>>
>>The compiler will give a warning that a function (main) which should
>>return an int does not return anything. ...
>>You now have added code (which won't be optimised out) which has no other
>>purpose than to shut the compiler up. ...
>
>Are you really concerned about one return statement in one function in
>the entire program taking up code space but never being executed?

 But that is ugly. In most unix versions of lint at least you 
 can put: /*NOTREACHED*/ after exit() to mark that the program never get to
that point.