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From: "peternilsson42" <peternilsso...@yahoo.com>
To: <c-prog@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Tuesday, April 07, 2009 6:33 PM
Subject: [c-prog] Re: C language
> From: "roshni anju" <roshni_a...@...>
> > Is there anyone who can plz tell me What does Main()
> > function return by default in 'C' Language.
A hosted implementation is required to support at least
two forms of main:
int main(void)
int main(int, char **)
Or int main(int argc,char* argv[]) most of the time.
Portable return values are 0, EXIT_SUCCESS and EXIT_FAILURE,
the latter two being declared in <stdlib.h>.
In C++ and C99, 'falling off' main, e.g.
int main()
{
/* no return */
}
... will result in a default of 0 being returned. C90
says that if the initial call to main fails to return a
value, then an unspecified termination status will be
returned to the host.
A free standing implementation need not even start via a
function called main.
"Bill Cunningham" <bill...@...> wrote:
> It can return either an int or nothing. In other words
> void.
>
> void main(void)
I'm sure you've read otherwise Bill, and chosen to ignore
it...
<http://www.parashift.com/c++-faq-lite/newbie.html#faq-29.3>
<http://c-faq.com/ansi/voidmainbooks.html>
<http://c-faq.com/~scs/readings/voidmain.960823.html>
Honestly this is the first time I've read this. I've been told otherwise and
I guess I was wrong. I seldom read the clc FAQS so that's my loss.
