Gary Thorpe <gat7634@hotmail.com> wrote:
> Matthias Drochner <M.Drochner@fz-juelich.de> wrote:
>>After all, we also have a "void main(void)" in some bootloaders,
>
>I am surprised the ANSI/ISO standard bearers on the lists did not die of 
>rage when this was posted. Could some of those holding copies of the 
>standard and so willing to quote it please comment on "void main(void)"??? 
>As far as I know, main is ALWAYS required to return int in ANSI C. Has this 
>changed with the latest drafts of the ISO and/or ANSI standards?

I don't have a copy of the ANSI standards here, so I can't quote the
exact wording, but the requirement for main() to be one of int
main(void) or int main(int, char *[]) (and the associated comment
deriding "void main(void)") is specific to a hosted environment, such
as a userland program, and not to a standalone environment, such as a
bootloader.  The kernel itself is void main(void) - see
src/sys/kern/init_main.c.

jdarrow

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