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From: tneff@bfmny0.UUCP (Tom Neff)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: entry at other than main (was: want to know)
Message-ID: <14626@bfmny0.UUCP>
Date: 5 Sep 89 12:33:31 GMT
References: <19474@gryphon.COM>
Reply-To: tneff@bfmny0.UU.NET (Tom Neff)
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In article <19474@gryphon.COM> bagpiper@pnet02.gryphon.com (Michael Hunter) writes:
>uhhh.....couldn't you fake a different entry point by not naming any function
>main and then using the macro preprocessor to name something main.  

Oh yes if you have the luxury of RECOMPILING then you can play all sorts of
tricks.  I have presumed right along that what these folks want is to decide
ex post facto where in an already-compiled set of object files you want the
program entry point to go.

In fact it's even easier if you have the luxury of REASSEMBLING the usual
front-end code which is REALLY invoked by the OS loader, and which then
calls main() as a normal subprogram.  Again, I assume people want to be
able to choose their entry point even without this ability.
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