From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
From: cmg5@home.com (Chris Gregory)
To: help-gcc@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Newbie gcc question
Date: Thu, 30 Sep 1999 23:56:00 -0000
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On Sun, 12 Sep 1999 17:30:24 -0500, Wayne Willson <wmw_will@yahoo.com> wrote:

>I'm a sys/network admin trying to learn C (this could be the root of the
>problem) with the GNU C compiler.
>
>In a learning C book I just bought it gives this example
>
>--------------------------------------------
>#include <stdio.h>
>
>viod main()
>{
>        printf("Hello Universe");
>}
>
>
>
>I type "gcc -o hello hello.c"
>
>This is what I get "hello.c: In function `main':
>hello.c:6: warning: return type of `main' is not `int'"
>------------------------------------------------------

Well, it still worked, you got a warning not an error.  Even when I don't need
a return I usually just accept that main is supposed to return an int and just
add a return 0; to the end of the program.  It shuts up the annoying warning.

-- 

Chris Gregory <cmg5@home.com>