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From: djones@megatest.UUCP (Dave Jones)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: exit(main(argc,argv,env));
Message-ID: <173@goofy.megatest.UUCP>
Date: 22 Dec 87 23:51:59 GMT
References: <2058@bloom-beacon.MIT.EDU>
Organization: Megatest Corporation, San Jose, Ca
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in article <2058@bloom-beacon.MIT.EDU>, wesommer@athena.mit.edu (William Sommerfeld) says:
 
 GNU emacs has its own version of crt0.c (with probably hundreds of
  #ifdefs to account for all sorts of machine dependancies) because it
  has to be able to dump out a core image of itself containing
  pre-loaded emacs lisp, and then restart this core image later.
 



It's quite possible to dump core without hacking crt0.c, which seems to
me to be an absolute no-no. (But then, I'm the guy who hacked exit().)
Must be some other reason for the special crt0.c in gnu-emacs.

		-- djones