What punctuation ends most lines of C and C plus plus code?

C programs are composed from data types and functions. Functions are composed from one or more statements. A statement is composed from one or more expressions terminated by a semi-colon. A semi-colon without an expression is itself a statement (an empty statement).

Every C program must have at least one function, the global main function. This serves as the entry-point of the application. When we return from the main function, the program terminates normally.

The C standard requires that the global main function return an integer to the execution environment, where the value 0 is conventionally used to indicate "no error". As such, the minimum C program is as follows:

int main (void) {

return 0;

}