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Date: Fri, 04 Jul 1997 13:14:28 +0000
From: "John M. Aldrich" <fighteer AT cs DOT com>
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Organization: Two pounds of chaos and a pinch of salt
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To: Andrew Crabtree <andrewc AT typhoon DOT rose DOT hp DOT com>
CC: djgpp AT delorie DOT com
Subject: Re: void main ?
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Andrew Crabtree wrote:
> 
> Sure, for the i386 class machines I would agree that void main
> is never going to cause any problem other than a garbage return
> value.  The point I think was that on other architectures (I can't think
> of any modern ones, maybe the 6502), return values may go on a stack, in
> which case you could have problems.

You are certainly correct.  Since DJGPP is a DOS-specific compiler, I
usually only worry about PCs when framing my replies.  On other
hardware, void main() may be substantially more dangerous.

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