Newsgroups: comp.lang.c Path: utzoo!henry From: henry@utzoo.uucp (Henry Spencer) Subject: Re: want to know Message-ID: <1989Aug16.154924.20645@utzoo.uucp> Organization: U of Toronto Zoology References: <8487@bsu-cs.bsu.edu> <2980@solo9.cs.vu.nl> <182@sunquest.UUCP> <14269@haddock.ima.isc.com> <1496@l.cc.purdue.edu> Date: Wed, 16 Aug 89 15:49:24 GMT In article <1496@l.cc.purdue.edu> cik@l.cc.purdue.edu (Herman Rubin) writes: >There is no even moderately fair reason why the user's program should start >at main (or _main if from C, or _MAIN_ if from Fortran). Is there a reason why it shouldn't? (Other than that Herman Rubin doesn't like it, which is unremarkable since he doesn't like a lot of things.) -- V7 /bin/mail source: 554 lines.| Henry Spencer at U of Toronto Zoology 1989 X.400 specs: 2200+ pages. | uunet!attcan!utzoo!henry henry@zoo.toronto.edu