25 May
2020
25 May
'20
5:37 p.m.
i was surprised not to see any mention of the entry
keyword reserved but,
i believe, never used in early c. it is listed in k&r ed1.
i always assumed this was to allow the author to choose an alternative to
main() for the program’s entry point, but we all know what assumption is...
older
CC's came with the so-called startup code where one could increase the number of file
handle and so on before compiling and linking the resulting .o to the application object
files. Of course one could rename the invocation of main to something like beatles. ;-)
Even M$ msc supplied the startup code.
-Steve