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Re:Who Needs Main() Anyway? by rramadass on Sunday January 22, 2023 @12:41AM (#34474693)
Is this what passes for "technical know-how" nowadays?

Just read Hongjiu Lu's classic paper ELF: From The Programmer's Perspective to get an idea of how everything comes together in C/C++ land.

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Re:Who Needs Main() Anyway? by sargstuff on Sunday January 22, 2023 @09:48AM (#34477849)
But in today's non-programmer post-covid world, ELF is seasonal, COFF is year round.

edit: COFF phoneticly eqivalent to cough.

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