Hello Thomas,

On Aug 25 19:54 96, Thomas Seeling of 2:244/1130.42 wrote:

 TS> This is semantically nonsense. Calling exit() means leaving 
 TS> the program, sending the argument of exit() as return code 
 TS> to the calling process. The compiler might have generated 
 TS> stupid code because of void main() which negates that 
 TS> scheme.

thats not correct.

void main() 

means that main returns nothing to the caller, which is the runtime libary.
the CRT will return this value to the calling process.

calling exit() will not return to the caller (at any level) but will
immediate housekeep CRT and  shutdown the process and return the value to
the caller. 

this are 2 completly different things.


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

ok. but when you declare main() as void, it is still PERFECTLY OK C/C++
code. (or show me the sentence in the ARM or the ANSI which says it is
not).

 WARPED!, Mario

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