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- From: Barry Margolin <barmar@tools.bbnplanet.com>
- Newsgroups: comp.std.c++
- Subject: Re: Are all Windows programs ill-formed?
- Date: 1 Feb 1996 22:54:45 GMT
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- Approved: clamage@eng.sun.com (comp.std.c++)
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- In article <9602010236.26117@mulga.cs.mu.oz.au>,
- Fergus Henderson <fjh@munta.cs.mu.OZ.AU> wrote:
- >You are correct to infer that this means that all Windows programs
- >which do not define main() are ill-formed.
-
- Perhaps Windows programs are expected to #include some standard header that
- defines main(), and to link with a runtime library that defines it. This
- conformance requirement is on the program after inclusion of headers and
- linking, so these programs would indeed be well-formed.
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