Date: Thu, 30 Oct 1997 11:44:12 +0200 (IST)
From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>
To: Peter Palotas <blizzar AT hem1 DOT passagen DOT se>
cc: firewind <firewind AT metroid DOT dyn DOT ml DOT org>, djgpp AT delorie DOT com
Subject: Re: Reading the command line
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On Wed, 29 Oct 1997, Peter Palotas wrote:

> If this is so, why doesn't the compiler generate an error for declaring
> main() as 'void main()'?

The GCC on-line manual explains this:

    Some users try to use `-pedantic' to check programs for strict ANSI
    C conformance.  They soon find that it does not do quite what they
    want: it finds some non-ANSI practices, but not all--only those
    for which ANSI C *requires* a diagnostic.

    A feature to report any failure to conform to ANSI C might be
    useful in some instances, but would require considerable
    additional work and would be quite different from `-pedantic'.