From: Donald Manley <Rafkin AT pacbell DOT net>
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Subject: Re: Using C for dummies, Rhide and DJGPP HELP?
Date: Tue, 15 Sep 1998 19:45:29 -0700
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Uhfgood wrote:

> okay well it runs fine and does what it supposed to but the execute for this
> little program is 83k... Why is this so big?

I am unsure on this but am guessing the size is the stdio.h being included into the
program. the include, puts the .h file into the program itself at compile time.

>  and then I also get a Warning
> that comes up in RHides message window, that says something like (function main
> does not return "int"), or some such thing and i'm wondering why it does this?

A few tutorials tell you it's ok to use:
void main()
for the program and return nothing. Although this is ok in C, it is not a good
programming habbit. What you should do instead is use:
int main()
{
***you're program here***
return 0;
}

that will fix the problem.

Rafkin
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