[PATCH] Warning for main returning a bool.

Manuel Klimek via cfe-commits cfe-commits at lists.llvm.org
Sat Nov 5 10:47:57 PDT 2016


+richard

On Fri, Oct 14, 2016 at 10:18 AM Joshua Hurwitz via cfe-commits <
cfe-commits at lists.llvm.org> wrote:

> See attached.
>
> Returning a bool from main is a special case of return type mismatch. The
> common convention when returning a bool is that 'true' (== 1) indicates
> success and 'false' (== 0) failure. But since main expects a return value
> of 0 on success, returning a bool is usually unintended.
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