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From: "Boyd Roberts" <boyd@planete.net>
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Subject: Re: [9fans] the declaration of main()
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Date: Fri, 27 Apr 2001 01:55:45 +0200
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> I think there was a linker trick (similar to the floating-point
> trick) to get the appropriate runtime startup behavior depending
> on whether stdio functions had been invoked or not; at least,
> when I tried the experiment on 7th Ed.

yeah, that sounds familiar.