Re: Must main return a value?

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From: Doug Gwyn
Date: Fri, 28 Jun 1991 23:46

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In article <1991Jun28.072521.1@sysjj.mdcbbs.com> hooverm@sysjj.mdcbbs.com (SQUID 6 on the DARK side) writes:
>I use:
>	void main()
>	{
>	insert magic code here
>	}
>This seems to work well on all three platforms.

Damn it, this is comp.std.c, not comp.lang.c.neophyte.  Walter Murray was
asking a standard-related question; he presumably doesn't care any more
than I do whether or not you have successfully gotten away with violations
of the C standard using a small number of specific implementations.

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From: gwyn@smoke.brl.mil (Doug Gwyn)
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Subject: Re: Must main return a value?
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