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From: toddpw@tybalt.caltech.edu (Todd P. Whitesel)
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Subject: Re: Orca/C, bug?
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Date: 19 Oct 90 13:38:43 GMT
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jh4o+@andrew.cmu.edu (Jeffrey T. Hutzelman) writes:

>1.)  Never declare main as void.  Main returns an int.

Um, I have been writing void main (...) without problems ever since I
got ORCA (over 1 month of extensive use). If I declare main as void then
everything works; if I try to return something from main I get an error
because main is declared to return void.

In actuality, 1 thru 4 byte values are returned in registers, so it
doesn't really matter as far as code generation is concerned unless
you are returning a struct or a float.

BTW- I am still using a beta.

Todd Whitesel
toddpw @ tybalt.caltech.edu