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Re: Hello World doesn't work



On Fri, 27 Nov 1998, Havoc Pennington wrote:

> 
> On Fri, 27 Nov 1998, Kent West wrote:
> > 
> >   main()
> 
> A long shot, but technically the above is illegal; you have to do:
> int main(int argc, char* argv[])

int main(void) is also correct, and until ANSI C90 comes out, main() will
do.
 
> then return something from main, or call exit().
> 
> maybe the lack of a return or exit call from main prevents the io buffers
> from getting flushed? 

the lack of <stdio.h> is probably more important...

Matthew 

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