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From: gwyn@smoke.BRL.MIL (Doug Gwyn)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: want to know
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Date: 18 Aug 89 21:59:57 GMT
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In article <8496@galbp.LBP.HARRIS.COM> jsb@advdev.UUCP (FLEA) writes:
>I'm curious.  What does your C compiler at home do differently with main()
>and why is it a "pseudo-function"?
>What different rules does it follow?

	int main(void) { ... }
is required to work properly even when there are arguments that could
have been passed to it.  This is not true of genuine functions.