Function Pointer to main()

[Bob Rossi]

On Fri, Oct 07, 2005 at 08:01:44PM -0300, Pedro Henrique wrote:
> Hi Everyone,
> 
> I was playing with my compiler and so I tried this:
> 
> int main (){
>    int (*p_func)() = main;
>    p_func();
> }
> 
> I was trying to perceive more about the details of main function. Could
> someone explain me what the program tries to do? Why
> doesn't the program begin a infinite recursion?

It does go into an infinate loop. Use GDB to follow the execution. BTW,
that program locked up my machine for a good minute until it died.

Bob Rossi