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Josh Carroll wrote:
 > [...]
 > Note also that your main should have an int return type and should
 > return a value.

His main() function _did_ have an int return type (it
wasn't declared to be void), but of course it's better
style to write int explicitly.

By the way, FreeBSD's style(9) recommends to write the
function return type on a separate line and begin the
function name on column 1, like this:

int
main (int argc, char *argv[])
{
        ...
}

The clear advantage is that you can easily grep for the
definition of a particular function in a bunch of source
files:  grep '^main' *.c

Best regards
   Oliver

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