From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
From: mrs@wrs.com (Mike Stump)
To: egcs@cygnus.com, jinbo21@soback.kornet.nm.kr
Subject: Re: warning: return type of main is not int
Date: Fri, 16 Jan 1998 19:49:00 -0000
Message-id: <199801170153.RAA00076@kankakee.wrs.com>
X-SW-Source: 1998-01/msg00536.html

> Date: Fri, 16 Jan 1998 10:52:41 +0900 (KST)
> From: Byeong-ryeol Kim <jinbo21@soback.kornet.nm.kr>
> To: egcs@cygnus.com

>  I often met this warning after installing egcs on rh 5.0.
>  Is this harmless?
> void main(int argc, char *argv[])

This is reasonably safe, but wrong for C++.  The return type should be
int not void.  Why bother asking us, it takes less time to fix the
code as the compiler instructs.  return 0, if you don't know of a
better value to return.