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Date: Fri, 13 Jun 1997 11:06:29 -0300
To: fighteer AT cs DOT com, Robert Humphris <r DOT humphris AT indigo-avs DOT com>
From: Cesar Scarpini Rabak <csrabak AT dce03 DOT ipt DOT br>
Subject: Re: newbie question
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At 19:21 12/06/97 +0000, John M. Aldrich wrote:

>ANSI correct definition of main().  I believe that K&R (the definitive
>work on C) also uses the correct definition.  Some authors (okay, many

Unfortunately more or less, 'though in the pages 26 and 164 of their 2nd Ed,
there is a discussion on main returning int and ist use by the host OS, the
examples thorough the book use main without explicit return type (which
before I get a lot o BW on this on my account, I know that C defaults the
return type of functions to int!). But surely never used the void main thing. 

Oddly enough, I've seen this construct more heavily used in Microsoft
examples, I wonder how can if their make OSs, but that's another story...
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