Created on 2014-03-04.00:00:00 last changed 94 months ago
[Moved to DR at the May, 2015 meeting.]
Proposed resolution (November, 2014):
Change 6.9.3.1 [basic.start.main] paragraph 2 as follows:
An implementation shall not predefine the main function. This function shall not be overloaded.ItIts type shall have C++ language linkage and it shall have a declared return type of type int, but otherwise its type is implementation-defined. An implementation shall allow both...
Change 6.9.3.1 [basic.start.main] paragraph 3 as follows:
The function main shall not be used within a program. The linkage (6.6 [basic.link]) of main is implementation-defined. A program that defines main as deleted or that declares main to be inline, static, or constexpr is ill-formed. The main function shall not be declared with a linkage-specification (9.11 [dcl.link]). A program that declares a variable main at global scope or that declares the name main with C language linkage (in any namespace) is ill-formed. The name main is not otherwise reserved...
There does not appear to be any restriction on giving main() an explicit language linkage, but it should probably be either ill-formed or conditionally-supported.
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| Date | User | Action | Args |
| 2017-02-06 00:00:00 | admin | set | status: drwp -> cd4 |
| 2015-11-10 00:00:00 | admin | set | status: dr -> drwp |
| 2015-05-25 00:00:00 | admin | set | messages: + msg6040 |
| 2015-05-25 00:00:00 | admin | set | status: tentatively ready -> dr |
| 2014-11-24 00:00:00 | admin | set | messages: + msg5157 |
| 2014-11-24 00:00:00 | admin | set | status: drafting -> tentatively ready |
| 2014-07-07 00:00:00 | admin | set | status: open -> drafting |
| 2014-03-04 00:00:00 | admin | create | |