Challenging query regarding pointer

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Originally Posted by audinue

I see this code just works fine with most C compiler :D

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func() {
  //...
}

main() {
  //...
}

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http://cpwiki.sourceforge.net/Implicit_main

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Originally Posted by Elysia

http://cpwiki.sourceforge.net/Implicit_main

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However, many programmers (especially those of us at cboard) find this a bad thing. This type of declarations are also deprecated in C89 standard and in fact not supported in C99 and C++, which also makes it a bad idea. It is also a good programming practice that all functions should have an explicit return type, so in effect, main should really be:

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A true lie xD
Does MSVC/GCC rely on C99? xP

Not a lie. It was a lesson C learned from C++.
MSVC does not support C99, and GCC probably need some strict compiling in C99 mode to complain.