Sorry about breaking the back-thread, I only saw the response in the cmake digest and not from a particular response.
I think that this code is suspicious anyway, for a number of reasons. They claim out-of-the-box windows compatibility, but I'm getting all sorts of other compilation errors that indicate that this code isn't of the highest Windows quality. For instance, neglecting these two defines: # define ENAMETOOLONG WSAENAMETOOLONG # define ENOTEMPTY WSAENOTEMPTY and assuming that sys/signal.h exists across all platforms while not making the same assumption about sys/types.h. Looks like I'm gonna have to (re)learn sockets, at least enough to polish this up to make it useful. To paraphrase Homer J: "Learning? That wasn't part of the deal!" Ah well :) Thanks for the help, Mark On Fri, Aug 27, 2010 at 9:31 AM, Jed Brown <j...@59a2.org> wrote: > Quoth Stroustrup (http://www2.research.att.com/~bs/bs_faq2.html#void-main): > > The definition > > void main() { /* ... */ } > > is not and never has been C++, nor has it even been C. See the ISO C++ > standard 3.6.1[2] or the ISO C standard 5.1.2.2.1. A conforming > implementation accepts > > int main() { /* ... */ } > > and > > int main(int argc, char* argv[]) { /* ... */ } > > A conforming implementation may provide more versions of main(), but > they must all have return type int. The int returned by main() is a way > for a program to return a value to "the system" that invokes it. On > systems that doesn't provide such a facility the return value is > ignored, but that doesn't make "void main()" legal C++ or legal C. Even > if your compiler accepts "void main()" avoid it, or risk being > considered ignorant by C and C++ programmers. > > > Mark, you may be correct that it's not the reason for the failure (I > haven't read the back-thread, which you broke) but I would be very > suspicious of code that is non-conforming. > > Jed > _______________________________________________ Powered by www.kitware.com Visit other Kitware open-source projects at http://www.kitware.com/opensource/opensource.html Please keep messages on-topic and check the CMake FAQ at: http://www.cmake.org/Wiki/CMake_FAQ Follow this link to subscribe/unsubscribe: http://www.cmake.org/mailman/listinfo/cmake
