why does main() have '%retval' in '.ll' file LLVM

Question

As title, why does main() have variable 'retval' but not used? And local func test() doesn't have any variable named 'retval'.

"hello.c"

#include <stdio.h>

int main()
{
    printf("hello world\n");
    return 0;
}

"hello.ll"

@.str = private unnamed_addr constant [13 x i8] c"hello world\0A\00", align 1

; Function Attrs: noinline nounwind optnone
define dso_local i32 @main() #0 {
entry:
  %retval = alloca i32, align 4              // why does it have this pattern?
  store i32 0, i32* %retval, align 4
  %call = call i32 (i8*, ...) @printf(i8* getelementptr inbounds ([13 x i8], [13 x i8]* @.str, i32 0, i32 0))
  ret i32 0
}

declare dso_local i32 @printf(i8*, ...) #1

normal func comparing:

"hello_func.c"

#include <stdio.h>

int test()
{
    printf("hello world\n");
    return 0;
}

"hello_func.ll"

@.str = private unnamed_addr constant [13 x i8] c"hello world\0A\00", align 1

; Function Attrs: noinline nounwind optnone
define dso_local i32 @test() #0 {
entry:                               //  there is no pattern named retval
  %call = call i32 (i8*, ...) @printf(i8* getelementptr inbounds ([13 x i8], [13 x i8]* @.str, i32 0, i32 0))
  ret i32 0
}

declare dso_local i32 @printf(i8*, ...) #1

Answer 1

The reason retvalis unused is described here.

Clang creates this variable to hold the return value of any given non-void function except in special cases. And one of those special cases occurs when the function has a single return statement that returns an llvm Constant.

I guess the reason the variable was still retained for the main function has to do with the fact that main according to the C standard should by default return 0.