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From: gwyn@smoke.BRL.MIL (Doug Gwyn)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: entry at other than main (was want to know)
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Date: 21 Aug 89 21:28:02 GMT
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In article <15127@dartvax.Dartmouth.EDU> ari@eleazar.dartmouth.edu (Ari Halberstadt) writes:
>Just have an option to the linker telling it what the entry point is.

A language-independent linker cannot possibly know what a programming
language's startup requirements are, therefore it cannot arrange the
set-up necessary for arbitrary entry points.