Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!ndsuvax!ncbauers
From: ncbauers@ndsuvax.UUCP (Michael Bauers)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: exit(main(argc,argv,env));
Message-ID: <577@ndsuvax.UUCP>
Date: 17 Dec 87 02:32:29 GMT
References: <10875@brl-adm.ARPA>
Reply-To: ncbauers@ndsuvax.UUCP (Michael Bauers)
Organization: North Dakota State University  Fargo, ND
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In article <10875@brl-adm.ARPA> ADLER1%BRANDEIS.BITNET@CUNYVM.CUNY.EDU writes:
>I was looking through the file crt0.c in the GNU emacs source code and
>found the command
>exit(main(argc,argv,env));
>which I find puzzling. I thought that one was supposed to give exit a
>number for an argument. What does the above command do and why would
>anyone want to do it that way ?

	Well I have never seen syntax like this...but it should just recur-
sively call main.  I assume you know what argc, argv, and env are.  Main
would be in big trouble if it did not have a normal exit statement which
presumably is of the form exit(n).