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From: gwyn@smoke.BRL.MIL (Doug Gwyn)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: want to know
Message-ID: <10792@smoke.BRL.MIL>
Date: 21 Aug 89 19:18:40 GMT
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In article <2043@salgado.Solbourne.COM> dworkin@Solbourne.com (Dieter Muller) writes:
>What's wrong with ld's ``-e entry'' argument?

Two things:  It's of no use for portable C programming; but more importantly,
it bypasses the startup module that is necessary for the hosted environment
to get set up properly (in many environments).