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to: Mike Ruskai
from: George White
date: 1995-04-20 20:19:04
subject: EMX main()

Hi Mike,

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

Because by ANSI definition main has to return a value. Legal
declarations are:

int main (void)

and

int main (int argc, char* argv[])

The DOS compilers that allow a "void main (void)" declaration still
return a value to the OS on exit, they just do it under the hood.

George

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