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From: "Douglas A. Gwyn" <gwyn@arl.army.mil>
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Subject: Re: [9fans] the declaration of main()
Date: Mon, 23 Apr 2001 08:44:09 +0000
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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.