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From: leo@atcmp.nl (Leo  Willems)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c++
Subject: Re: Can you prototype main()  ?????
Message-ID: <659@atcmpe.atcmp.nl>
Date: 17 Sep 90 09:30:56 GMT
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Organization: AT Computing, Nijmegen, The Netherlands
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From article <14227.26dc5b2f@max.u.washington.edu>, by 8324155@max.u.washington.edu:
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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.
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>     Thanks ahead of time,    Mark Frey

The annotated C++ ref man (E&S) is very explicit about main, amongst
others it states: main() can not be overloaded and its calling conventions
are implementation dependent, but two forms are recommended:
	main()   and  main(int, *char[])

So, however not stated explicitlly, as I see it you are not allowed to
give a prototype for main.

Hope this helps.

Leo