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C G S Reddy - 30 Dec 2004 11:51 GMT

what happens if we declare main(.. as below in c language?

static void main()
{
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}

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Doug Harrison [MVP] - 30 Dec 2004 16:24 GMT

>what happens if we declare main(.. as below in c language?
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>}

I don't know about C, but in C++, it makes the program ill-formed. VC 7.1
seems to ignore the "static", not to mention the void return type, which is
also illegal. So, this seems to be a case of:

Patient: Doc, it doesn't hurt when I do this.
Doc: Well, don't do it anyway!

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