int main vs void main

Good   Posted by: bilderbikkel on Monday, March 16, 2009

The message is good. The reasoning behind it, however, not as detailed is I would've liked it: the reader is told that it has something to do with 'startup code', but this is not explained in detail. This would not be a problem, had there have been links to a more detailed article, which results me in giving four instead of five stars.

Incorrect article   Posted by: Lundin on Tuesday, September 08, 2009

The article is not correct. Both C and C++ allows void main() in freestanding environments, ie code for embedded systems, operative systems etc. Still, such versions of main() in freestanding environments are implementation-defined behavior and not necessarily portable because of it.

On hosted environments (Windows, DOS, Linux, Mac etc programs), the only allowed form in both C and C++ is int main(). There is no difference between the two languages.

As for the "startup code", it is generated by the compiler as well, so typically it doesn't matter whether standard or non-standard main() is used. So the biggest program with non-standard main() is that it's non-portable.

just a try   Posted by: FreshBirdFirstTimeToHere on Thursday, April 15, 2010

first time to visit a full English Website on progamming,
It's not as hard as I thought before I click the link

C &C++   Posted by: AJAY KUMAR on Thursday, July 01, 2010

DISTINGUISH BETWEEN INT MAIN() AND VOID MAIN()

int main vs void main   Posted by: Akshay on Monday, October 04, 2010

c language   Posted by: lala on Saturday, October 09, 2010

c is very very logical thinking language

C Language   Posted by: Himanshu Madhan on Friday, November 26, 2010

It is the interesting language

sites   Posted by: Arindam on Saturday, January 08, 2011

http://grepler.com/threads/index/alt.comp.lang
http://grepler.com/threads/index/alt.comp.lang.php