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[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 week ago (1 children)

@stebo02 @Bogus5553 Neither of them require a return value, but void main isn't legal C++.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago (1 children)

yeah I thought so, does it work in C?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

void main(){...} is not in the standard, but works on both MSVC and GCC (with warnings). I think it works on both C/C++, but you really shouldn’t use it in production. Just use int main(void){...} , without any return value, which is permitted in the standard, and will return success iirc.