On Fri, Oct 14, 2016 at 1:17 PM, Joshua Hurwitz via cfe-commits <cfe-commits@lists.llvm.org> wrote: > See attached. > > Returning a bool from main is a special case of return type mismatch. The > common convention when returning a bool is that 'true' (== 1) indicates > success and 'false' (== 0) failure. But since main expects a return value of > 0 on success, returning a bool is usually unintended.
I am not convinced that this is a high-value diagnostic. Returning a Boolean from main() may or may not be a bug (the returned value is generally a convention more than anything else). Also, why Boolean and not, say, long long or float? ~Aaron > > _______________________________________________ > cfe-commits mailing list > cfe-commits@lists.llvm.org > http://lists.llvm.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/cfe-commits > _______________________________________________ cfe-commits mailing list cfe-commits@lists.llvm.org http://lists.llvm.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/cfe-commits
