Re: D as a Better C

[jmh530 via Digitalmars-d-announce]

On Wednesday, 23 August 2017 at 17:39:00 UTC, Walter Bright wrote:

On 8/23/2017 10:26 AM, jmh530 wrote:

Am I correct that betterC requires main to be extern(C) and must act like a C main (i.e. no void return)?

Yes.

This might be added to
http://dlang.org/dmd-windows.html#switch-betterC
or
http://dlang.org/spec/betterc.html

Is that something that can be changed in the future?

Yes, but I don't see a need for it.

Fair enough. A version statement could handle it

version(BetterC)
{
    extern(C) int main()
    {
        callRealMain();
    }
}
else
{
    void main()
    {
        callRealMain();
    }
}