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From: andrey mirtchovski <aam396@mail.usask.ca>
To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu
Subject: Re: [9fans] the declaration of main()
Date: Thu, 12 Apr 2001 00:25:47 -0600	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <3AD54A6B.51AA3EAA@mail.usask.ca> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <10991.987056527@beat.cc.titech.ac.jp>

http://plan9.bell-labs.com/sys/doc/comp.html

to quote (before someone else does it :) :

In Plan 9 main is not integer-valued; it should call exits, which takes
a string argument
(or null; here ANSI C promotes the 0 to a char*). All these functions
are, of course, documented in the Programmer's Manual.

andrey

YAMANASHI Takeshi wrote:

> A number of Plan 9 commands declare their main() as
> `void main(int argc, **argv)'.  How should I understand
> this?
>
> I believed that main() should be declared returning a int.
> Please comfort me saying that this is pretty well with the
> Plan 9 C compilers.
>



  reply	other threads:[~2001-04-12  6:25 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 50+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2001-04-12  6:22 YAMANASHI Takeshi
2001-04-12  6:25 ` andrey mirtchovski [this message]
2001-04-12  6:28 okamoto
2001-04-23  8:44 ` Douglas A. Gwyn
2001-04-23  8:48 ` Boyd Roberts
2001-04-23 11:09 forsyth
2001-04-23 11:31 ` Boyd Roberts
2001-04-24  9:02 ` Douglas A. Gwyn
2001-04-24 12:09   ` Boyd Roberts
2001-04-26 16:05     ` Douglas A. Gwyn
2001-04-26 18:12       ` Boyd Roberts
2001-04-26 23:55       ` Boyd Roberts
2001-04-24 17:43   ` Greg Hudson
2001-04-26 15:55     ` Douglas A. Gwyn
2001-04-23 19:33 dmr
2001-04-24  0:59 okamoto
2001-04-24  3:08 ` Boyd Roberts
2001-04-24  8:10 forsyth
2001-04-26 15:55 ` Douglas A. Gwyn
2001-04-24 10:32 rog
2001-04-24 18:03 ` Steve Kilbane
2001-04-26 18:23 forsyth
2001-04-26 19:17 ` Mike Haertel
2001-04-26 23:50   ` Boyd Roberts
2001-04-27 14:41     ` Douglas A. Gwyn
2001-04-27 15:40       ` Boyd Roberts
2001-04-27  9:12 ` Douglas A. Gwyn
2001-04-26 19:42 Russ Cox
2001-04-26 20:32 ` Dan Cross
2001-04-26 22:03 ` Boyd Roberts
2001-04-27  9:13 ` Douglas A. Gwyn
2001-04-26 20:58 forsyth
2001-04-27  9:13 ` Douglas A. Gwyn
2001-04-27 14:48   ` Boyd Roberts
2001-04-27 16:22     ` Douglas A. Gwyn
2001-04-27 18:24       ` William K. Josephson
2001-04-30  9:23         ` Douglas A. Gwyn
2001-04-27 19:38       ` Boyd Roberts
2001-04-28 15:54       ` Greg Hudson
2001-04-28 16:39         ` Dan Cross
2001-04-28 17:06           ` Boyd Roberts
2001-04-30  9:25           ` Douglas A. Gwyn
2001-04-27  6:57 nemo
2001-04-28 17:57 forsyth
2001-04-28 22:28 ` Dan Cross
2001-04-30  9:25 ` Douglas A. Gwyn
2001-04-28 18:44 forsyth
2001-04-30  9:24 ` Douglas A. Gwyn
2001-04-30 10:44 forsyth
2001-04-30 12:05 rob pike

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