Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!clyde!rutgers!husc6!cmcl2!brl-adm!brl-smoke!gwyn
From: gwyn@brl-smoke.ARPA (Doug Gwyn )
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: exit(main(argc,argv,env));
Message-ID: <6880@brl-smoke.ARPA>
Date: 19 Dec 87 02:30:56 GMT
References: <10875@brl-adm.ARPA> <1253@homxb.UUCP>
Reply-To: gwyn@brl.arpa (Doug Gwyn (VLD/VMB) <gwyn>)
Organization: Ballistic Research Lab (BRL), APG, MD.
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In article <1253@homxb.UUCP> mr@homxb.UUCP (mark) writes:
>This brings up an interesting problem :

"Interesting" must be in the mind of the beholder!

>	What if you declare main to return something other than an int ?

Simple: if you do that, you're wrong.

>	Is that allowed ?

How could it be?  However, few compilers will warn you about this
mistake.