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Re: Are all Windows programs ill-formed?

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From: Barry Margolin
Date: Thu, 01 Feb 1996 22:54
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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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From: Barry Margolin <barmar@tools.bbnplanet.com>
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