On Tuesday, 22 July 2025 12:53:07 Pacific Daylight Time Paul Caprioli via Std-
Proposals wrote:
> I specifically mentioned "not supported by older compilers" because this
> proposal seeks to standardize existing practice and, "At the time of
> writing, MSVC accepts void main() without warnings, EDG accepts void main()
> with warnings, and GCC and Clang reject this declaration."
>
> If "void main()" is proposed as a new feature, what problem is it trying to
> solve?

GCC still accepts the implicit-int main(), I guess for compatibility with B?

https://gcc.godbolt.org/z/s3GaTs9cb

The above program compiles with GCC as C++11, C89 and would have compiled as B
if GCC supported it, except that the return statement was "retrn" because I
guess Kernigham hated vowels... (q.v. "creat")

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