__main?

[Alexandre Oliva]

On Jan 26, 2001, Axel Kittenberger <Anshil@gmx.net> wrote:

> Okay if I create a __main that's empty the linker will be happy, right?

It may work, yes.  But then, it may break later.

> Hmmm gcc, did not protest when I called main();....

Not even with -W -Wall -ansi -pedantic?

> Other question, is gcc capable of letting me switching sections, so
> like I've some few global variables that I want to reside in a
> special section, or some startup code witch is required to be on the
> first code page?

Look for `section' in ``Variable attributes'', in the GCC manual.

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