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From: leo@atcmp.nl (Leo  Willems)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c++
Subject: Re: Flames re: Can you prototype main() ?????
Message-ID: <660@atcmpe.atcmp.nl>
Date: 17 Sep 90 09:37:45 GMT
References: <24449@uflorida.cis.ufl.EDU>
Organization: AT Computing, Nijmegen, The Netherlands
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From article <24449@uflorida.cis.ufl.EDU>, by bp@swamp.cis.ufl.edu (Brian Pane):
> 
> I've already received one kind e-mail response correcting my earlier
> posting on the permissibility of prototyping "int main();," and I hope
> 
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> The only reason you'd want to prototype main() is to call it from
> somewhere else; in such a case, it ought to be called with the right

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You are not allowed to call  main from within a program (sec 3.4 E&S).
If you want to you you're on your own....

Leo