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Article #3212Re: Are all Windows programs ill-formed?
From: David Byrden
Date: Fri, 02 Feb 1996 22:00
Date: Fri, 02 Feb 1996 22:00
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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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