Subj : Re: Class problems
To   : borland.public.cpp.borlandcpp
From : maeder
Date : Sun Sep 12 2004 12:59 pm

"Mark Manning/Muniz Eng." <mark@glab> writes:

> void main( int argc, char *argv[] ) is perfectly valid as long as exit
> is not used.

No. Both the C and the C++ language have always required the return type
of main() to be int. The ISO Standards for the languages require compilers
to produce a diagnostic message if the return type is different from void.

There are many buggy compilers out there, including, I think all Borland
has ever released, that let you get away with main()'s return type being
void, but that doesn't make doing it any more correct.

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