The C standard says arguments to main() should be defined as: int main(void) or int main(int argc, char *argv[]) (or equivalent, eg. int can be replac

The C standard says arguments to main() should be defined as: int main(void) or int main(int argc, char *argv[]) (or equivalent, eg. int can be replaced by a typedef name defined as int, or the type of argv can be written as char ** argv). From http://www.open-std.org/jtc1/sc22/wg14/www/docs/n1256.pdf http://www.open-std.org/jtc1/sc22/wg14/www/docs/n1256.pdf, Section 5.1.2.2.1: Program startup) EDIT: apologies for the atrocious formatting, but it wasn't clear to me how to put two asterisks in a sequence here on HN without preformatted text.