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From: dillon@POSTGRES.BERKELEY.EDU (Matt Dillon)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Lattice C 5.0
Message-ID: <8812192102.AA25347@postgres.Berkeley.EDU>
Date: 19 Dec 88 21:02:47 GMT
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	You can't return an error code from main() via return.  The only
way to return an error code is with exit() or _exit().  returning from main()
always generates an error code of 0.  This is why main() might be declared 
void.  Why?  Lots of people let main() fall through to exit a program, which
means the 'return value' would otherwise be garbage.

				-Matt

:     I don't know about the ANSI standard but the way Lattice 4.02 worked
:(and I think version 5.0 works the same way) you get an error if you've
:specified a prototype for a function and then not complied with it.  But if
:you don't use the prototyping feature you won't get the errors.  The main
:difference I've noticed is 5.0 has a lot more prototypes built for
:functions supplied by Lattice.  In particular, I ran afoul of their
:definition of main() as a void in stdlib.h.  I'm used to declaring main()
:an int so I can return an error code.
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