Based on other proposals that touch on main, adding any more signatures to
main will be a very hard sell.

Jeremy

On Tue, Jul 22, 2025 at 04:41 Jan Schultke via Std-Proposals <
std-proposals_at_[hidden]> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I'm cooking up a draft for a proposal:
> https://gist.github.com/Eisenwave/78d6127b73c6c9a1bc4cb55ad7bf249c
>
> In short, the goal is for "int main(int, const char**)" and some other
> signatures to be permitted. Many C++ developers probably expect this
> to be standard C++ already, but surprisingly, this is voluntarily
> supported by implementations despite there being no such requirement.
> This borders on being a CWG issue, but I don't think CWG could make
> such a decision without consulting EWG anyway, so here we are.
>
> The one interesting question in the proposal is whether "void main()"
> should be permitted. I think there are some good arguments in favor of
> that, but also good arguments against.
>
> Let me know what you think :)
>
>
> Jan
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