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From: gwyn@brl-smoke.ARPA (Doug Gwyn )
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: exit(main(argc,argv,env));
Message-ID: <6869@brl-smoke.ARPA>
Date: 18 Dec 87 22:39:35 GMT
References: <10875@brl-adm.ARPA> <1451@houdi.UUCP>
Reply-To: gwyn@brl.arpa (Doug Gwyn (VLD/VMB) <gwyn>)
Organization: Ballistic Research Lab (BRL), APG, MD.
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In article <1451@houdi.UUCP> marty1@houdi.UUCP (M.BRILLIANT) writes:
>The key question is where the exit(main(..)) was found.

He told you; it was in crt0.c, the C run-time startup module.
That is the fellow who runs your main() function.  I doubt that
in the Gnu package it was called recursively.