Re: [TUHS] why the leading under score added to function names?

I'm going to need to train myself to use the "reply to list" button. Though in this case I think part of the problem was duplicate-filtering which lost the copy that had the appropriate header. On 2/25/2012 3:39 PM, John Cowan wrote: This is not true in my experience. If it was ever true, it's not true today (with MSVC, anyway. GCC may be different, but if there is a 'system-provided main()' it's GCC, or cygwin or mingw, and not anything from microsoft, that is providing it). The procedure "provided by windows" (provided by MSVC, actually) that does that is in fact called WinMainCRTStartup. When you link a windows _console_ program, a different function (called mainCRTStartup) which does the same setup (plus opening a console if none is open and setting up stdio which the WinMain version doesn't) and then invokes main(). The startup function is an interesting read - it has more work to do on windows than the unix equivalent, because systems like signals (which are in ANSI), file descriptor based I/O (which is not ANSI but nevertheless is implemented in MSVC), and such, that are "naturally occuring" on unix have to be set up. The whole program executes in a __try/__except block to allow them to make signals work, for example.