• =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Anders_F_Bj=F6rklund?= (18/18) Nov 29 2004 Would it be possible to change the D declaration
• Thomas (5/23) Nov 29 2004 If you play a little around, you'll notice that the "return" value is ps...
• =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Anders_F_Bj=F6rklund?= (6/15) Nov 29 2004 returns

=?ISO-8859-1?Q?Anders_F_Bj=F6rklund?= <afb algonet.se> writes:

Would it be possible to change the D declaration
"void main() {}" to return 0 back to the shell ?

Currently it seems to return "1", or failure*...
(as per C macros: EXIT_SUCCESS=0, EXIT_FAILURE=1)


Which makes that you must use the somewhat longer
"int main() { return 0; }", just to make it happy.

(if you actually wanted to read arguments and return
a code, you'd probably use: "int main(char[] args)")


Allowing "void main()" would be a nice improvement
over ANSI C, which has the same main restrictions.

That is: if you declare main as void, the compiler
should explicitly insert a "return 0;" equivalent.

--anders

* For some reason, DMD on Linux returns a "12" ???

   Seems like all bets are off now, you can even declare
   stuff like "float main()" (for fuzzy return states?)

   GCC does at least whine, in the same situation:
   "warning: return type of `main' is not `int'"

Thomas <Thomas_member pathlink.com> writes:

In article <cof1cb$p8$1 digitaldaemon.com>, Anders says;
Would it be possible to change the D declaration
"void main() {}" to return 0 back to the shell ?

Currently it seems to return "1", or failure*...
(as per C macros: EXIT_SUCCESS=0, EXIT_FAILURE=1)


Which makes that you must use the somewhat longer
"int main() { return 0; }", just to make it happy.

(if you actually wanted to read arguments and return
a code, you'd probably use: "int main(char[] args)")


Allowing "void main()" would be a nice improvement
over ANSI C, which has the same main restrictions.

That is: if you declare main as void, the compiler
should explicitly insert a "return 0;" equivalent.

--anders

* For some reason, DMD on Linux returns a "12" ???

   Seems like all bets are off now, you can even declare
   stuff like "float main()" (for fuzzy return states?)

   GCC does at least whine, in the same situation:
   "warning: return type of `main' is not `int'"

If you play a little around, you'll notice that the "return" value is pseudo
random. I guess that whatever value is stored in EAX will be "returned" to the
shell.

Thomas

=?ISO-8859-1?Q?Anders_F_Bj=F6rklund?= <afb algonet.se> writes:

Thomas wrote:

* For some reason, DMD on Linux returns a "12" ???

 
 If you play a little around, you'll notice that the "return" value is pseudo
 random. I guess that whatever value is stored in EAX will be "returned" to the
 shell.

You are correct. (with DMD compiler)

 $ cat returncode.d
 void main() { asm { mov EAX, 42; } }

returns
 $ ./returncode; echo $?
 42

Still returns 1 with gdc, though...


I think it should either be an error, or return 0 always ?

--anders