Russ Allbery writes:
> Russell Nelson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> > It's of no concern. At some point, some smart person decided that main
> > should return the exit code of the program. So every program needed to
> > have its 'main' routine changed from void to int,
>
> Mm... I'm fairly certain that it's been int main() clear back to the K&R
> days. I don't have a 1st edition K&R handy, but the second edition
> declares main without a return value, which in C of course is an implicit
> declaration of int.
Right, but the 1st edition doesn't mention the return value from main().
2nd edition does.
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