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From: paolucci@snll-arpagw.UUCP (Sam Paolucci)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.tech
Subject: Re: Any good makes out there?
Message-ID: <57@snll-arpagw.UUCP>
Date: 24 Feb 89 04:16:03 GMT
References: <8902120648.AA14117@postgres.Berkeley.EDU> <97@ssibbs.UUCP>
Reply-To: paolucci@snll-arpagw.UUCP (Sam Paolucci)
Organization: Sandia National Labs, Livermore, CA
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In article <97@ssibbs.UUCP> jac@ssibbs.UUCP (James Crotinger) writes:
->  A couple of the books I have, one on ANSI C, state that returning a value
->from main should be identical to calling exit(). In fact, they say it is
->perfectly allowable for the startup code to execute main() with the following
->call:
->
->  exit(main(argc,argv));
->
->  In this respect, Lattice is in error since it prototypes main as being 
->type void, where all the books I've seen (ANSI books) say main should have
->type int.

I called Lattice about 3 days ago about a bunch of non ANSI stuff in their
"ANSI" compiler, and I forgot to mention them exactly the above.  You are
correct and Lattice is wrong on this point.  I suggest you discuss this
with their tech support (or I will).

->                               Jim Crotinger
->                               crotinger%mit.mfenet@nmfecc.arpa


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