From: "H.W. Stockman" <hwstock AT swcp DOT com>
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Subject: Re: Reading the command line
Date: Tue, 28 Oct 1997 18:03:20 -0700
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Vik Heyndrickx wrote:
> 
> Jon Seanor wrote:
> >
> > >And the return type of main is int, not void. That should be in any text
> > >book too.
> >
> > Only if you want to return something!
> 
> The standard tells that the return type of main is int and not void.

Many compilers will gleefully let you declare
void main(){}
...without a single complaint.  However, the consequences
of mixing order of argc and argv[] are likely to be
more significant.