Re: newbie C programming question

[Gordon Messmer <yinyang eburg com>]

On Thu, 2003-01-02 at 00:18, Christopher Henderson wrote:
> My first program, a simple "Hello World", is as follows
> 
> #include < stdio.h>
> 
> void main()
> {
>     printf("\nHello World\n");
> }
> 
> I go to a console and type gcc hello.c as stated in the tutorial and get 
> the following error spit out at me -
> 
> hello.c:1:20:  stdio.h: No such file or directory

Remove the space before the header name.

> hello.c: In function `main':
> hello.c:4: warning: return type of `main' is not `int'

The C standard requires that the return type of the "main" function be
int, not void.  Your main function should always be declared:

int main( int argc, char ** argv )
or, equivalently:
int main( int argc, char * argv[] )