🚀 go-pugleaf

kanze@gabi.gabi-soft.fr (J. Kanze) wrote:

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>> > |> But if a compiler does not accept
>> > 
>> > |>      int main() { return 0; }
>> > 
>> > |> as a complete program, then that compiler is not a conforming C or C++
>> > |> implementation.
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>If there is not a way to get the above program to compile, link and
>execute, however, then I will have to take back my defense of Microsoft
>in previous postings.  I find this hard to believe, however.

The program does compile, link, and run, with the command 

   cl test.cpp 

The result was a Win32 version 4 console application.

I've written console apps under Windows 95 for file-format hacking and
so forth, and I've used Win32 console apps (and OS/2 character-mode
apps for that matter) as the basis of porting ray tracers and so
forth. More than once, I've had to page past Unix-bigotted rants about
how such and such wouldn't work on intel-based machines, as I scanned
through the readme's of portable programs. 

The standards for C and C++ are working. There doesn't happen to be a
standard GUI library, which is why you have funky main functions under
some of the GUI's.


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