gcc/ld doesn't like ___main

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From: Adam H. Lewenberg
Date: Mon, 23 Mar 1992 18:55

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I am getting the error message 

   ld: Undefined symbol
      ___main
   *** Error code 2

when I try to compile and link a C program using gcc.
I have no idea where ___main comes from; I cannot find
it in any of the source files or include files. What's 
going on? I am using gcc 2.0.
           Adam H. Lewenberg adam@symcom.math.uiuc.edu
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University of Illinois at Champaign-Urbana, Dept. Of Mathematics
INTERNET: adam@symcom.math.uiuc.edu   or a-lewenberg@uiuc.edu

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