From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu
Subject: Re: [9fans] the declaration of main()
From: rog@vitanuova.com
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Date: Tue, 24 Apr 2001 11:32:07 +0100
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gwyn@arl.army.mil wrote:
> forsyth@vitanuova.com wrote:
> > it's unfortunately more error prone than void/exit.  for instance, it was
> > common to forget fflush() in the presence of setbuf/setvbuf in main for an auto buffer
> > and worse, that sometimes `worked' (until ported).
>
> I don't understand what you're talking about.

consider:

	#include <stdio.h>
	int main(void)
	{
		char buf[100];
		setvbuf(stdout, buf, _IOFBF, sizeof(buf));
		printf("hello, world\n");
		return 0;
	}