Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!uflorida!haven!adm!smoke!gwyn From: gwyn@smoke.BRL.MIL (Doug Gwyn) Newsgroups: comp.lang.c Subject: Re: want to know Message-ID: <10780@smoke.BRL.MIL> Date: 19 Aug 89 05:05:09 GMT References: <8487@bsu-cs.bsu.edu> <2980@solo9.cs.vu.nl> <182@sunquest.UUCP> <14269@haddock.ima.isc.com> <1496@l.cc.purdue.edu> <1701@crdgw1.crd.ge.com> <2538@trantor.harris-atd.com> <1989Aug16.203219.11825@cs.rochester.edu> <2549@trantor.harris-atd.com> <10770@smoke. Reply-To: gwyn@brl.arpa (Doug Gwyn) Organization: Ballistic Research Lab (BRL), APG, MD. Lines: 6 In article <2561@trantor.harris-atd.com> bbadger@x102c.harris-atd.com (Badger BA 64810) writes: >Exactly what does your C compiler _do_ differently for main? Apart from applying special interface rules, as described in a previous posting, this particular compiler generates the program entry point itself as part of the code generated for the main() pseudo-function.