Re: (long) An AES implementation for 32-bit platforms

From: Richard Heathfield (dontmail_at_address.co.uk.invalid)
Date: 06/11/03 

Date: Wed, 11 Jun 2003 06:25:12 +0000 (UTC)

Mok-Kong Shen wrote:

<snip>

>
> One should use int main() according to
> the new C standard, if I don't err.)

Indeed. And according to the old C standard, too. And before that, there was
no such thing as void anyway. void main() has never been correct in C or in
C++ (although it is correct in Java, oddly enough). 

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