Namespaces & main()

[Martin von Loewis]

> |> This part is correct.  The global "main" is explicitly defined in the C++
> |> standard to return 0 if no return value is given.
> 
> Unfortunately g++ doesn't implement that yet.  Thus you'll currently get a
> random exit code in this case.

??? On i486-pc-linux-gnu, when given

int main(){}

egcs-2.92.15 produces, with -O2 -S -fno-exceptions
-fomit-frame-pointer the output

main:
	xorl %eax,%eax
	ret

The bugs with 'main' in a namespace is a different issue. The name
'main' is not special inside a namespace: it is not the program entry
point, nor defaults its return value to 0.

Regards,
Martin