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- From: David Byrden <100101.2547@compuserve.com>
- Newsgroups: comp.std.c++
- Subject: Re: Are all Windows programs ill-formed?
- Date: 02 Feb 1996 14:00:26 PST
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- Approved: austern@isolde.mti.sgi.com
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- Originator: austern@isolde.mti.sgi.com
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- >> It requires every program to have the main() function (which
- >> implementation is not allowed to supply) with parameters (void) or (int
- >> argc, int*argv[]). However, Windows programs have another convention:
- >> prrogram must contain the function int WinMain
-
- I remember reading that you can write a Windows program with a main()
- function and the usual command line arguments, and then the Microsoft
- compiler will then generate WinMain somehow....but that the "operating
- system" does link to WinMain.
-
- David
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