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From: dworkin@Solbourne.COM (Dieter Muller)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: want to know
Message-ID: <2043@salgado.Solbourne.COM>
Date: 19 Aug 89 15:42:04 GMT
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Reply-To: dworkin@Solbourne.com (Dieter Muller)
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In  a bunch of folks have complained about not
being able to specify a start-up function other than main () on Unix.

Umm, folks?  Stupid question time.  What's wrong with ld's ``-e entry''
argument?  This (or a variant thereof) has been in every version of
Berkeley Unix I've seen, and I'm pretty sure it was in Version 6 (my
manual is a few miles away at the moment).

``-e entry'' specifies the entry-point of the program as _entry_.

We now return you to your regularly-scheduled C vs FORTRAN flame war.

	Dworkin
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