From: Erik Max Francis <max AT alcyone DOT com>
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp
Subject: Re: game programming
Date: Sun, 27 Dec 1998 22:23:34 -0800
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leonj AT geocities DOT com wrote:

> This is the only I can help you with. Kinda simple, but I dunno why
> it
> happend to me too. Change the return type for main from just main()
> "int
> main" and then at the very end of the program type "return 0".

The prototype

    extern main();

_does_ have the return type int -- in C, the return type defaults to int
if not specified.  That is, the program

    main() { return 0; }

is perfectly valid ANSI C (but doesn't do anything).

The problem was that the program was explicitly declared to return void,
which is an ANSI violation.

> I also have he same book and have not been able to compile anything
> from it.

It's clear that the book was never intended to be used with DJGPP; I
think the original poster was just mistaken.  The FAQ will help with
converting such programs to DJGPP.

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