Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!husc6!cmcl2!adm!smoke!gwyn
From: gwyn@smoke.BRL.MIL (Doug Gwyn )
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: Strange lint mumblings
Message-ID: <9231@smoke.BRL.MIL>
Date: 27 Dec 88 04:59:48 GMT
References: <416@marob.MASA.COM> <11467@dartvax.Dartmouth.EDU> <179@amsdsg.UUCP>
Reply-To: gwyn@brl.arpa (Doug Gwyn (VLD/VMB) <gwyn>)
Organization: Ballistic Research Lab (BRL), APG, MD.
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In article <179@amsdsg.UUCP> jeff@amsdsg.UUCP (Jeff Barr) writes:
>How about:
>	void main ()
>	{
>	 ...

Don't do this!  Declare your types properly!  Whatever is calling
main() is expecting it to have a certain "shape" (that of a function
with two arguments and returning an int); ANSI C requires that the
compiler be able to compensate for the arguments being omitted, but
not for the return type being garbled.