return 0; at the end of a main()

[MrPapas1991]

when should i use "return 0;" at the end of a main() function?

[tkud]

Unless you're using void main() (which is not advisable to use), the return type of your main() is int, so you either return 0(which indicates successful run of the program)or 1 or any other int value(which indicates failure) i.e if your program runs successfully, then 0 is returned , else, any other value you specified is returned.

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[Narue]

>when should i use "return 0;" at the end of a main() function?
Always or never, depending on your preference and whether or not you're writing standard C++. In standard C++ 0 is returned automagically when execution falls off the end of main, so the following is perfectly valid:

int main()
{
}

However, some people like to be consistent and explicitly return from any function that doesn't return void:

int main()
{
  return 0;
}

My personal preference is that if I have multiple returns from main, EXIT_SUCCESS is always explicit at the end, but otherwise I omit the return statement entirely:

int main()
{
  // Stuff with no return statement
}

#include <cstdlib>

int main()
{
  // Stuff

  if ( failed )
    return EXIT_FAILURE;

  // Stuff

  return EXIT_SUCCESS;
}