Whether there can be main inside another main?If so how does it work?

Categories >> Software >> Programming Languages >> C
Suggest New Category

Whether there can be main inside another main?If so how does
it work?

Question Posted / hailbalaji

14 Answers
22515 Views
Sail, Wipro, I also Faced
E-Mail Answers

Answers were Sorted based on User's Feedback

Whether there can be main inside another main?If so how does it work?..

Answer / namita

main()
{
main();
}

This code snippet will result in infinite loop.

Is This Answer Correct ?

43 Yes

15 No

Whether there can be main inside another main?If so how does it work?..

Answer / shiva

main()
{
printf("main()");
}

Is This Answer Correct ?

39 Yes

19 No

Whether there can be main inside another main?If so how does it work?..

Answer / divyansh

main marks the beginning of a program, 2 direct mains can't
be there as it will make the compiler dumb!(literally),in
this case it will give an error, or an infinite loop
operation will be executed.

Is This Answer Correct ?

21 Yes

3 No

Whether there can be main inside another main?If so how does it work?..

Answer / nilanjan

Surely. . It will just act like a recursive version of
main(), which will run infinite times if there is no
limiting condition specified.

Sample:

#include <stdio.h>

int main()
{
int static i = 0;

printf("\nFile is too big.");

while(i == 0)
{
i++;
main();
}
return 0;
}

Is This Answer Correct ?

21 Yes

3 No

Whether there can be main inside another main?If so how does it work?..

Answer / vara

there will be no error but the output will go in infinite
loop
main()
{
int a=2,b=3;
a=a+b;
b=a-b;
a=a-b;
printf("%d",&a);
printf("%d",&b);
main();
getch();
}

Is This Answer Correct ?

19 Yes

5 No

Whether there can be main inside another main?If so how does it work?..

Answer / rajdesai143

yes.There can be any no of main inside the main.But one
static main should be required .In that we can call any no
of times it just works as recursive.

Since one static main is required because (astart) requires
that . Its a startup code

Is This Answer Correct ?

9 Yes

0 No

Whether there can be main inside another main?If so how does it work?..

Answer / kasthurimangai.v

main()
{
printf("main()");
}

Is This Answer Correct ?

8 Yes

3 No

Whether there can be main inside another main?If so how does it work?..

Answer / gprabha

#include<stdio.h>
void main()
{
printf("main()");
main();
getch();
}

Is This Answer Correct ?

3 Yes

1 No

Whether there can be main inside another main?If so how does it work?..

Answer / guest

nested main

Is This Answer Correct ?

1 Yes

0 No

Whether there can be main inside another main?If so how does it work?..

Answer / harinath

yes there can be
for example
main()
{
static int count=50;
printf("%d",count--);
while(count>0)
main();
}
here the output is numbers upto 1 then it comes out of it.

Is This Answer Correct ?

1 Yes

1 No

Post New Answer