On Wed, Mar 02, 2016 at 02:01:15PM +0000, One Thousand Gnomes wrote: > int main(void) is wrong as there are passed arguments
Not in this particular case - test doesn't take args. > int main() is ok (in C89 at least) because it means "there are unknown > arguments" > > int main(int argc, char *argv[]) is allowed > > int main(void) is not safe on all platforms because some compilers > choose to do the argument cleanup in the return path of the called > function. Having the wrong number of arguments doesn't end well in such > cases. I doubt any Linux platforms do this but we shouldn't be > encouraging bad programming techniques 8) There's also the variadic thing. Here's hpa's sermon from a couple of years ago: http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.kernel/1268751/focus=1268792 :-)))) -- Regards/Gruss, Boris. ECO tip #101: Trim your mails when you reply.

