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[–] exoplanetary@lemmy.world 13 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Yep, main returns an int in C++. It’s for the return code - if it returns 0, that indicates the program ran ok, if it returns anything else some sort of error occurred.

[–] Neon@kbin.social 3 points 1 year ago

that actually makes sense. thanks for that explanation.