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From: karl@haddock.ima.isc.com (Karl Heuer)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: Strange lint mumblings
Message-ID: <11274@haddock.ima.isc.com>
Date: 22 Dec 88 21:33:54 GMT
References: <416@marob.MASA.COM> <11467@dartvax.Dartmouth.EDU> <179@amsdsg.UUCP>
Reply-To: karl@haddock.ima.isc.com (Karl Heuer)
Organization: Interactive Systems, Boston
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In article <179@amsdsg.UUCP> jeff@amsdsg.UUCP (Jeff Barr) writes:
>> >(137)  warning: main() returns random value to invocation environment
>How about:
>	void main () { ... exit (0); }

(a)  It doesn't work, at least on the machine I tried.
(b)  According to the dpANS, the type of `main' must be either `int(void)' or
`int(int, char **)'.  A `void' declaration, although logically correct, cannot
be used in a strictly conforming program.

Karl W. Z. Heuer (ima!haddock!karl or karl@haddock.isc.com), The Walking Lint