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Eugene Radchenko <eugene@qsar.chem.msu.su> wrote about
Are all Windows programs ill-formed?
in article <AE5J83na99@qsar.chem.msu.su> of 29 Jan 96:
> Hi!
> I have just realized that something is grossly overlooked in C++ standard.
> 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(HINSTANCE curInst, HINSTANCE prevInst, LPSTR cmdline, int
> cmdShow) Some of this is of course quirks or even outright ignored in Win32
> (prevInst), but the full non-parsed command line could be useful sometimes,
> and not all implementations provide the function retrieving it. And anyway
> this is definitely not a main() from the specs. Maybe the requirements on
> the main() should be relaxed somehow?

The actual main() procedure is part of the C++ Windows run- 
time library and it's this function which calls Win/LibMain.

Claus

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