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Subject: Re:  Print symbionts
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Date: 9 Jun 88 13:09:00 GMT
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(The original posting concerned symbionts written in C, and the C runtimes'
unfortunate habit of blindly zapping stdout whether it was used or not.)

The problem *can* be solved; in fact, I was unaware of it, even though I
wrote a PSM-based symbiont entirely in C.  The main function is, in fact,
called "main", but perhaps I avoided the ugliness referenced above by having
it end with "return" instead of just running into the closing brace.  At
any rate, the symbiont can be STOP/RESETted without crashing the job
controller....

So far as I can recall, none of my extant C code uses any C runtimes.  We
use C here for most of our system support and utility projects, and it works
very well using only VMS runtime support.

You *can* try fiddling with images that have no "main" function, but you
will have to find some other way to pass an image start address to the linker.
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