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From: Peter Berdeklis <peter AT atmosp DOT physics DOT utoronto DOT ca>
Subject: Re: main() {...} (was: using rhide) 
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Implicit void in an empty argument list is ANSI compliant C, and proper 
C++ (according to the draft standard).

Implicit int is ANSI compliant C (unfortunately), but not proper C++.

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Peter Berdeklis
Dept. of Physics, Univ. of Toronto

On Sun, 26 Jan 1997, John M. Aldrich wrote:

> You can use either int main( void ) or int main( int argc, char **argv )
> depending on what your program needs to do.  (Note BTW that I use **argv
> instead of *argv[]; I have heard that the latter will not work with a
> few compilers.)  But omitting the return type and the void argument is
> just not a safe practice, and later versions of gcc will give you
> warnings if you omit them, especially when compiling C++.
> 
> The C++ spec is even less forgiving of default return types and empty
> arglists than the C spec.