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to: Mike Ruskai
from: Ed Blackman
date: 1995-04-19 15:28:08
subject: EMX main()

On  in a message to All, Mike Ruskai wrote:

MR> Does anyone know why the EMX compiler insists that the main
MR> function has to return an integer?  It won't accept void as
MR> the return type.

Perhaps EMX is a bit more strict about ANSI compliance than most
compilers.  ANSI specifies that main() returns an int.  Allowing main()
to return void is a violation of ANSI, albeit a minor one.


Ed Blackman

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