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>okamoto@granite.cias.osakafu-u.ac.jp wrote:
>> I wonder why C99 employed that int main(),
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>Existing practice, tracable back to UNIX.

I should have asked why C99 employed _fixed_ definition as the main()'s
return value to INT only.  I don't understand it, if the answer is "practice".

Kenji


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okamoto@granite.cias.osakafu-u.ac.jp wrote:
> I wonder why C99 employed that int main(),

Existing practice, tracable back to UNIX.

The previous response was incomplete; int-valued main
is apparently supported per the C standard if the pcc
(POSIX) compilation environment is used instead of the
native Plan 9 environment.
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