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| From | Keith Thompson <kst-u@mib.org> |
|---|---|
| Newsgroups | comp.lang.c |
| Subject | Re: [Solved] Need some help getting to my feet |
| Date | 2018-04-26 07:26 -0700 |
| Organization | None to speak of |
| Message-ID | <ln1sf2gi1w.fsf@kst-u.example.com> (permalink) |
| References | (1 earlier) <kfnzi1s1unz.fsf@x-alumni2.alumni.caltech.edu> <slrnpdushh.jmn.dan@xps-linux.djph.net> <d04792eb-0a93-46a3-8499-ecc4377dc31d@googlegroups.com> <ln604fi78x.fsf@kst-u.example.com> <0c6e134d-8f31-4ceb-815c-168df4ad65de@googlegroups.com> |
1alvinalbrecht1@gmail.com writes:
> On Wednesday, April 25, 2018 at 10:24:57 AM UTC-6, Keith Thompson wrote:
>> Schildt's use of void main() is inexcusable, not just because
>> it's wrong but because it's a symptom of his technical sloppiness.
>> He wrote a book "The Annotated ANSI C Standard" consisting of the
>> 1990 ISO C standard with his annotations on facing pages. He used
>> "void main(void)" as an example right next to the section of the
>> standard that requires the return type to be int.
>
> Just above that the standard will be talking about free-standing
> implementations where it will state that main is implementation
> defined.
You're right, and I probably should have mentioned that.
For hosted implementations (in C90), main *must* be defined with a
return type of int. Defining it with any other return type causes
undefined behavior (which can, of course, appear to "work").
(C99 added permission for other implementation-defined forms.)
For freestanding implementations, the type and name of the program's
entry point are implementation-defined.
That's not what Schildt was talking about, though. He used
"void main(void)" in his commentary on the section of the standard
that specifically talks about hosted implementations.
> It is quite common to see "void main(void)", "int main(void)"
> and sometimes other strange forms if the crt is written for a
> specific application.
> The requirement that main have form "int main()" or "int main(int
> argc, char **argv)" is really only speaking to (mainly) unix and
> windows (the "hosted" environment). These don't make sense in
> the majority of embedded applications which is one of the main
> application domains of C.
It's "(mainly) unix and windows" only because those are the most
common platforms for hosted implementations these days.
[...]
--
Keith Thompson (The_Other_Keith) kst-u@mib.org <http://www.ghoti.net/~kst>
Working, but not speaking, for JetHead Development, Inc.
"We must do something. This is something. Therefore, we must do this."
-- Antony Jay and Jonathan Lynn, "Yes Minister"
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Re: Need some help getting to my feet Ben Bacarisse <ben.usenet@bsb.me.uk> - 2018-04-24 16:38 +0100
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Re: Casting the return value of malloc() (Was: [Solved] Need some help getting to my feet) Bruce S <bruces42@hotmail.com> - 2018-04-26 13:31 -0600
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Re: [Solved] Need some help getting to my feet 1alvinalbrecht1@gmail.com - 2018-04-25 18:41 -0700
Re: [Solved] Need some help getting to my feet Keith Thompson <kst-u@mib.org> - 2018-04-26 07:26 -0700
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Re: [Solved] Need some help getting to my feet bartc <bc@freeuk.com> - 2018-04-26 11:33 +0100
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Re: [Solved] Need some help getting to my feet Ben Bacarisse <ben.usenet@bsb.me.uk> - 2018-04-27 00:09 +0100
Re: [Solved] Need some help getting to my feet Malcolm McLean <malcolm.arthur.mclean@gmail.com> - 2018-04-26 09:14 -0700
Re: [Solved] Need some help getting to my feet Keith Thompson <kst-u@mib.org> - 2018-04-26 10:26 -0700
Re: [Solved] Need some help getting to my feet Ben Bacarisse <ben.usenet@bsb.me.uk> - 2018-04-27 00:02 +0100
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Re: [Solved] Need some help getting to my feet Keith Thompson <kst-u@mib.org> - 2018-04-27 10:36 -0700
Re: [Solved] Need some help getting to my feet bartc <bc@freeuk.com> - 2018-04-27 19:04 +0100
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Re: [Solved] Need some help getting to my feet Steven Petruzzellis <frelwizzen@gmail.com> - 2018-04-30 23:32 -0700
Re: [Solved] Need some help getting to my feet Keith Thompson <kst-u@mib.org> - 2018-04-26 07:33 -0700
Re: [Solved] Need some help getting to my feet jameskuyper@verizon.net - 2018-04-26 08:38 -0700
Re: [Solved] Need some help getting to my feet already5chosen@yahoo.com - 2018-04-27 03:30 -0700
Re: [Solved] Need some help getting to my feet Tim Rentsch <txr@alumni.caltech.edu> - 2018-04-27 08:41 -0700
Re: [Solved] Need some help getting to my feet Dan Purgert <dan@djph.net> - 2018-04-27 17:04 +0000
Re: [Solved] Need some help getting to my feet Keith Thompson <kst-u@mib.org> - 2018-04-27 11:06 -0700
Re: [Solved] Need some help getting to my feet Dan Purgert <dan@djph.net> - 2018-04-27 20:15 +0000
Re: [Solved] Need some help getting to my feet Keith Thompson <kst-u@mib.org> - 2018-04-27 13:47 -0700
Re: [Solved] Need some help getting to my feet bartc <bc@freeuk.com> - 2018-04-27 22:06 +0100
Re: [Solved] Need some help getting to my feet Keith Thompson <kst-u@mib.org> - 2018-04-27 14:51 -0700
Re: [Solved] Need some help getting to my feet bartc <bc@freeuk.com> - 2018-04-28 00:25 +0100
Re: [Solved] Need some help getting to my feet Keith Thompson <kst-u@mib.org> - 2018-04-27 17:23 -0700
Re: [Solved] Need some help getting to my feet bartc <bc@freeuk.com> - 2018-04-28 01:39 +0100
Re: [Solved] Need some help getting to my feet Keith Thompson <kst-u@mib.org> - 2018-04-27 19:22 -0700
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Re: [Solved] Need some help getting to my feet bartc <bc@freeuk.com> - 2018-05-04 11:21 +0100
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Re: [Solved] Need some help getting to my feet Keith Thompson <kst-u@mib.org> - 2018-05-04 09:19 -0700
Re: [Solved] Need some help getting to my feet Keith Thompson <kst-u@mib.org> - 2018-05-04 11:00 -0700
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Re: Need some help getting to my feet Keith Thompson <kst-u@mib.org> - 2018-04-25 09:27 -0700
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