Brett McCoy wrote:
> On Sat, May 24, 2008 at 3:31 PM, odbapsvm <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> Does anyone know what happens if you call
>> main from main and end up with an infinite loop?
>>
>> void main(void) {
>>
>> void main();
>> }
>>
>> Will you exhaust memory, crash the machine or
>> neither.
>>
>> I know that nothing would be more educational than
>> trying it, but I thought that doing this might
>> be somewhat dangerous.
>
> I think in ANSI C you can call diredtly main(), I believe, but not in
> C++. But don't quote me on that, check the standard.
>
> BTW, main always returns int, it's never void
>
> -- Brett
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"ComeauTest.c", line 3: error: function "main" may not be called or have its
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main();
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In strict mode, Compile succeeded.
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