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From: gwyn@smoke.brl.mil (Doug Gwyn)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c++,comp.std.c,comp.std.c++
Subject: Re: calling main in ANSI C
Keywords: main standard
Message-ID: <14640@smoke.brl.mil>
Date: 3 Dec 90 14:21:46 GMT
References: <814@atcmpe.atcmp.nl>
Followup-To: comp.lang.c++
Organization: U.S. Army Ballistic Research Laboratory, APG, MD.
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In article <814@atcmpe.atcmp.nl> leo@atcmp.nl (!Leo  Willems) writes:
>The word "initial" suggests (to me) that main() may be called from within the
>program.

I asked X3J11 for an interpretation on this point, and they confirmed
that main() may be invoked "recursively" by a strictly conforming C
program.


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