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From: steve@taumet.com (Stephen Clamage)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c++,comp.std.c,comp.std.c++
Subject: Re: calling main in ANSI C
Keywords: main standard
Message-ID: <535@taumet.com>
Date: 3 Dec 90 05:47:08 GMT
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Organization: Taumetric Corporation, San Diego
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leo@atcmp.nl (!Leo  Willems) writes:

|The ARM (the annotated C++ reference manual), section 3.4 states:
|	"The function main() may not be called from within a program."
|I was looking for the same restriction in ANSI C, but could not find
|any statement in the ANSI C standard (2.1.2.2.1).
|Is C++ different from ANSI C on this point?

Yes.  In ANSI C, main() may be called from anywhere in the program.
In C++, it may not be called, nor may its address be taken.  Some
reasons for this are given in the ARM.
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Steve Clamage, TauMetric Corp, steve@taumet.com


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