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From: bp@swamp.cis.ufl.edu (Brian Pane)
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Subject: Re: Can you prototype main()  ?????
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Date: 16 Sep 90 17:56:10 GMT
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In article <14227.26dc5b2f@max.u.washington.edu>,
8324155@max.u.washington.edu writes:
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|>       I'm hoping someone can help me with this (hopefully) easy question
|> about C++, and specifically Turbo C++.  I have been learning C++ and using
|> the book "C++ Techniques and Applications" by Scott Robert Ladd, and when
|> I tried to compile one of his example programs with Turbo C++ I got a
|> "cannot overload 'main'" error message.  It seems the compiler choked on
|> the author prototyping main (with the line:  int main();
|> Is this a problem with Turbo C++, or is it not allowed in C++ and the
|> compiler that the author used just accepted it ?  It works fine in Turbo
|> if I remove the prototype.
|> 
|>    Thanks ahead of time,    Mark Frey
              
Actually, main is "int main (int, char**)."  If you declare main without
argc or argv, the compiler realizes that you must be talking about some
*other* main.  Perhaps the author was using a machine without an operating
system? :-)

-Brian Pane
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