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Article #6109Re: Feature request: warn on "void main"
From: Steven Michael ROBBINS
Date: Sun, 01 Dec 1996 00:00
Date: Sun, 01 Dec 1996 00:00
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In article <199612010425.XAA09048@cutter-john.mit.edu>, Greg Hudson <ghudson@mit.edu> wrote: > I've recently observed some free software authors use the > justification "it shuts up gcc" when asked why they declare main() as > void. (Presumably, they're using -Wall). Since "void main" is not > correct according to ANSI, I would appreciate it if the next version > of gcc could warn about it. I would advocate warning about it in all > cases, but warning about it only when -Wall is set is fine. I second this. And it's not just fee software authors that do this; I've seen it in commercial software.
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X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 113d02,da03ab9b7be97761 X-Google-Attributes: gid113d02,public From: stever@CS.McGill.CA (Steven Michael ROBBINS) Subject: Re: Feature request: warn on "void main" Date: 1996/12/01 Message-ID: <57s7qr$aap@sifon.cc.mcgill.ca> X-Deja-AN: 201715297 sender: bug-gcc-request@prep.ai.mit.edu references: <199612010425.XAA09048@cutter-john.mit.edu> organization: SOCS, McGill University, Montreal, Quebec, CANADA x-gateway: relay3.UU.NET from bug-gcc to gnu.gcc.bug; Sun, 1 Dec 1996 10:23:09 EST newsgroups: gnu.gcc.bug