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From: andrey mirtchovski <aam396@mail.usask.ca>
Subject: Re: [9fans] the declaration of main()
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Date: Thu, 12 Apr 2001 00:25:47 -0600
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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.
>