From: cowan@mercury.ccil.org (John Cowan)
Subject: [TUHS] why the leading under score added to function names?
Date: Sat, 25 Feb 2012 15:39:59 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20120225203959.GE29866@mercury.ccil.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4F492C43.3020602@fastmail.us>
Random832 scripsit:
> For instance, this is, according to Raymond Chen, why they added
> WinMain rather than extending main (they didn't know if extensions to
> main would be allowed).
That doesn't sound very reasonable to me. When you link a Windows
program, it still has a main() procedure provided by Windows which does
setup and then invokes WinMain().
> so it's possible that MSVC's C library was indeed, to some small
> degree, based on Unix.
Without doubt. After all, there was no other source of C libraries
before ANSI; compare the Whitesmiths library, which was "meticulously
incompatibled".
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-02-25 20:39 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-02-22 19:17 arnold
2012-02-22 21:22 ` Dave Horsfall
2012-02-22 22:47 ` A. P. Garcia
2012-02-23 4:30 ` Greg 'groggy' Lehey
2012-02-25 18:45 ` Random832
2012-02-25 19:24 ` Steve Nickolas
2012-02-25 20:39 ` John Cowan [this message]
2012-02-25 22:15 ` Random832
2012-02-26 13:28 ` Ronald Natalie
2012-02-27 1:30 ` random832
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2012-02-20 20:52 arnold
2012-02-20 23:21 ` Dave Horsfall
2012-02-21 0:34 ` Brantley Coile
2012-02-21 2:50 ` Warner Losh
2012-02-21 3:33 ` John Cowan
2012-02-21 3:41 ` Steve Nickolas
2012-02-21 18:18 ` ron
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