Hi - I’m trying to learn the first steps in programming. I have entered the following first program
#include <stdio.h>
main()
{
printf(“text”)
etc etc
but keep getting the same error for the second line.
warning: type specifier missing, defaults to ‘int’ [-Wimplicit-int]
I have tried variants and a few suggestions from other sites but nothing works. I’m sure I’m making a very basic error but can’t figure out what. Can anyone help?
I believe you just copy and paste the warning message into the Google Search input text box and it will tell the reason and solution…
Your function doesn’t specify what type of value that it returns. Classically in C any function that doesn’t define a return value is assumed to return an int, but it’s bad style and can mask bugs to rely on inferred returns.
Try defining main as:
int main(int argc, const char **argv)
It’s OK - I finally figured it out. I used the int main(void) - which didn’t work until I re-saved it in a new file, then used build with then build and run - finally got it to work. Bit of a fan but got there.
But thanks for the offer of help!