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From: ark@alice.UucP (Andrew Koenig)
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Subject: Re: C startup in /lib/crt0.o
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Date: Mon, 28-Apr-86 10:13:59 EDT
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> I see that the C startup routine _start in /lib/crt0.o under 4.2BSD
> is a bit over-protective, in that it calls routine _exit (rather than
> the system-call __exit) when it terminates.

If it didn't do that, the last buffer would go unflushed
on all output files.