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Re: [poll/chitchat] What's the best main(){...} ?

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On 15/06/17 17:41, Rick C. Hodgin wrote:
> On Thursday, June 15, 2017 at 11:36:08 AM UTC-4, David Brown wrote:
>> On 15/06/17 16:35, Rick C. Hodgin wrote:
>>> On Thursday, June 15, 2017 at 10:18:53 AM UTC-4, David Brown wrote:
>>>> My usual setup has a pattern like :
>>>>
>>>> int main(void) {
>>>> 	init();
>>>> 	while (true) {
>>>> 		run();
>>>> 	}
>>>> }
>>>
>>> Does the usual support call at your support desk go something like
>>> this:
>>>
>>>      "Yes, I keep clicking the exit button, but it doesn't do
>>>       anything.  It just stays in the program.  I have to use
>>>       a task manager to get the app to forcibly terminate.  It's
>>>       extremely frustrating."
>>>
>>
>> No.
>>
>> Nor do customers ring and say that their robot submarine needs to be
>> turned on and off again to make it go for a second dive.
>>
>> Different types of task have different requirements - very few of the
>> programs I write (for customers) are designed to do a task and then
>> stop.  Even the gui programs on PC's are typically run until the PC is
>> killed by a power cut (though they do have an option to exit!).
> 
> Well then.  My mistake.
> 

It was not an unreasonable question.  But in embedded systems 
programming, it is normal for programs never to stop.  The same applies 
to operating systems - even if you tell your PC to "shutdown" or "halt", 
the OS does not return from "main".

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[poll/chitchat] What's the best main(){...} ? luser droog <luser.droog@gmail.com> - 2017-06-14 22:30 -0700
  Re: [poll/chitchat] What's the best main(){...} ? Melzzzzz <Melzzzzz@zzzzz.com> - 2017-06-15 06:14 +0000
    Re: [poll/chitchat] What's the best main(){...} ? luser droog <luser.droog@gmail.com> - 2017-06-15 00:06 -0700
    Re: [poll/chitchat] What's the best main(){...} ? scott@slp53.sl.home (Scott Lurndal) - 2017-06-15 12:43 +0000
      Re: [poll/chitchat] What's the best main(){...} ? "Rick C. Hodgin" <rick.c.hodgin@gmail.com> - 2017-06-15 06:32 -0700
        Re: [poll/chitchat] What's the best main(){...} ? scott@slp53.sl.home (Scott Lurndal) - 2017-06-15 14:03 +0000
          Re: [poll/chitchat] What's the best main(){...} ? James Kuyper <jameskuyper@verizon.net> - 2017-06-15 10:07 -0400
      Re: [poll/chitchat] What's the best main(){...} ? Ben Bacarisse <ben.usenet@bsb.me.uk> - 2017-06-15 15:47 +0100
      Re: [poll/chitchat] What's the best main(){...} ? Tim Rentsch <txr@alumni.caltech.edu> - 2017-06-16 23:47 -0700
    Re: [poll/chitchat] What's the best main(){...} ? "Mr. Man-wai Chang" <toylet.toylet@gmail.com> - 2017-06-16 18:32 +0800
  Re: [poll/chitchat] What's the best main(){...} ? "Rick C. Hodgin" <rick.c.hodgin@gmail.com> - 2017-06-15 06:31 -0700
  Re: [poll/chitchat] What's the best main(){...} ? David Brown <david.brown@hesbynett.no> - 2017-06-15 16:18 +0200
    Re: [poll/chitchat] What's the best main(){...} ? "Rick C. Hodgin" <rick.c.hodgin@gmail.com> - 2017-06-15 07:35 -0700
      Re: [poll/chitchat] What's the best main(){...} ? David Brown <david.brown@hesbynett.no> - 2017-06-15 17:35 +0200
        Re: [poll/chitchat] What's the best main(){...} ? "Rick C. Hodgin" <rick.c.hodgin@gmail.com> - 2017-06-15 08:41 -0700
          Re: [poll/chitchat] What's the best main(){...} ? David Brown <david.brown@hesbynett.no> - 2017-06-15 21:18 +0200
            Re: [poll/chitchat] What's the best main(){...} ? "Rick C. Hodgin" <rick.c.hodgin@gmail.com> - 2017-06-15 12:39 -0700
            Re: [poll/chitchat] What's the best main(){...} ? David Kleinecke <dkleinecke@gmail.com> - 2017-06-15 19:58 -0700
        Re: [poll/chitchat] What's the best main(){...} ? Richard Heathfield <rjh@cpax.org.uk> - 2017-06-15 17:01 +0100
          Re: [poll/chitchat] What's the best main(){...} ? Melzzzzz <Melzzzzz@zzzzz.com> - 2017-06-15 16:13 +0000
            Re: [poll/chitchat] What's the best main(){...} ? Richard Heathfield <rjh@cpax.org.uk> - 2017-06-15 17:42 +0100
              Re: [poll/chitchat] What's the best main(){...} ? David Brown <david.brown@hesbynett.no> - 2017-06-15 21:21 +0200
                Re: [poll/chitchat] What's the best main(){...} ? Gareth Owen <gwowen@gmail.com> - 2017-06-15 20:48 +0100
                Re: [poll/chitchat] What's the best main(){...} ? Richard Heathfield <rjh@cpax.org.uk> - 2017-06-15 20:55 +0100

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