Hallo, Mario!

*** Am 28. August 1996 um 07:34 schrieb Mario Semo an Thomas Seeling:

 TS>> It is _bad_ _Bad_ _BAD_ _B_A_D_ to use void main().

 MS> code. (or show me the sentence in the ARM or the ANSI which says it is
 MS> not).

The ISO-standard defines exactly two variants of main():

int main(void)
int main(int,char**)

This holds true for the ARM, too. Additionally, ARM states that main()
cannot be called recursively, the address of main() cannot be taken, main
may not be static or inline and some other restrictions (reference part of
ARM, R3.4 in my german edition about "program startup and
ending").

IMHO it is always desirable to keep up with standards. I don't really need
to adhere to ISO-C, but it definitely eases development and brings me to
think about "strange" language constructs. A lot of my sources
could be ported to our workstation later (AIX and SGI) without too much
work, and of course it is maintenance friendly if colleagues have to
continue with my projects.


Tschau...Thomas

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