From:	mert0407 AT sable DOT ox DOT ac DOT uk (George Foot)
Newsgroups:	comp.os.msdos.djgpp
Subject:	Re: Templates
Date:	9 Jun 1997 12:34:03 GMT
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Darren Grant (darn AT xl DOT ca) wrote:

:      void main();

This is wrong. In C++ the main function absolutely must return an int; 
the strict type checking in C++ makes this very important. gcc
automatically switches the prototype to return int, but you ought to
declare it to return int explicitly yourself, and return a value. 

-- 
George Foot <mert0407 AT sable DOT ox DOT ac DOT uk>
Merton College, Oxford

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