cvs commit: src/usr.sbin/nologin nologin.c

[Nik Clayton]

On Tue, Jan 04, 2005 at 11:11:07PM +0000, Robert Watson wrote:
> On Tue, 4 Jan 2005, Maxime Henrion wrote:
> > I bet there is a reason behind this, but I'm totally puzzled at why you
> > would do such a thing.  It was much prettier and more "C" before.  Could
> > you shed some light on this please? 
> 
> I ran into exactly the same problem I assume Xin Li is now running into
> just a few days ago: gcc warns if argc and argv are unused in the main() 
> definition if they aren't referenced when running at higher WARNS levels. 
> I would argue this is a bug in gcc, since main() is part of an API calling
> convention, and it doesn't matter if the arguments are unused by the
> function -- they are still provided by the caller.  But then, I'm not a C
> expert, so maybe this opinion is the result of poor breeding? :-) 

What's wrong with (the perfectly legal):

   int
   main(void)
   {
   ...
   }

or does gcc complain about that too?

N
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