Date: Sun, 28 Dec 1997 11:45:08 +0200 (IST)
From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>
To: Nate Eldredge <eldredge AT ap DOT net>
cc: Noam Rotem <nrotem AT johnbryce DOT co DOT il>, djgpp AT delorie DOT com
Subject: Re: Filtering warnings
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On Fri, 26 Dec 1997, Nate Eldredge wrote:

> At 01:31  12/26/1997 PST, Noam Rotem wrote:
>
> >When I'm using the -Wall switch, I get also the warning about 
> >main, defaulting to 'int'...
> 
> Strangely, I can't get the warnings myself. Compiling this program:
> 
> #include <stdio.h>
> void main(void) { printf("Hello, world"); }
> 
> yields no warnings, even with `-Wall' and/or `-W'.

The warning is issued when you say "main(void)", not "void main(void)".
The latter is perfectly legal, even though it's looking for trouble
and against ANSI C rules.