Why doesn’t this compile?
The linker can’t find main, but why is this the case?
namespace somenamespace{
int main(void){
return 0;
}
}
Why doesn’t this compile? The linker can’t find main, but why is this the
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Why doesn’t this compile?
The linker can’t find main, but why is this the case?
namespace somenamespace{
int main(void){
return 0;
}
}
Your example has ‘main’ (intended as the program entry point) as a namespace function and hence your code is ill-formed. This does not mean that a function ‘main’ can not be defined as you did. It just means that a global namespace scope definition of ‘main’ in accordance with the Standard defined signature is required for a
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