From: Martin DOT Stromberg AT lu DOT erisoft DOT se (Martin Stromberg)
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp
Subject: Re: Using C for dummies, Rhide and DJGPP HELP?
Date: 16 Sep 1998 11:35:56 GMT
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Uhfgood (uhfgood AT aol DOT com) wrote:
: Hello my name is Keith and i'm new to this group.  I just got C for dummies
: volume one.  Well basically I have two questions.  Firstly when i'm in rawhide
: I make my source file save it and compile it.  I made a simple hello world
: style program... like this

: #include <stdio.h>

: void main()
: {
:                printf("Goodbye, cruel world!\n");
: }

: 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?  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? 
: I'm not necessarily a newbie to programming but i am new to C... and new to
: DJGPP, so please go easy on me even tho these are such trivial questions.
: Thanks                                                                         
It means what it says; main should be declared to return int:
"int main( ..."

Perhaps you should get a better book if this stupid dummy book says you 
should write "void main()"?


Right,

							MartinS