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From: peter@ficc.uu.net (Peter da Silva)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: entry at other than main (was want to know)
Message-ID: <5794@ficc.uu.net>
Date: 20 Aug 89 15:05:17 GMT
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The only time I ever wanted to give a program multiple entry points it was
called a "shared library". Writing a shared library even if it's not going to
be reentrant is fairly complex, at least compared to writing a program with
a unique entry point. Anyone who wants to go through all this for the sake
of some syntactic nicety needs to have their head examined.
-- 
Peter da Silva, *NIX support guy @ Ferranti International Controls Corporation.
Biz: peter@ficc.uu.net, +1 713 274 5180. Fun: peter@sugar.hackercorp.com. `-_-'
"Optimization is not some mystical state of grace, it is an intricate act   U
   of human labor which carries real costs and real risks." -- Tom Neff