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Date: Fri, 6 Jul 2001 00:25:13 -0500 (CDT)
From: Mumit Khan <khan AT NanoTech DOT Wisc DOT EDU>
To: Mo DeJong <mdejong AT cygnus DOT com>
cc: cygwin AT sources DOT redhat DOT com
Subject: Re: Problem choosing exe entry point.
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On Thu, 5 Jul 2001, Mo DeJong wrote:

> I think I have found a problem with the way Cygwin ld
> picks the executable entry point when both WinMain() and main()
> are available. I would think that passing in the -mwindows flag
> (which gets passed to ld as --subsystem windows) would clear
> things up and link with WinMain(). Instead, Cygwin ld is
> choosing main().

I would consider this a quality of implementation issue rather
than a bug. Having both main and WinMain is rather ambiguous
under most circumstances, and I'm not sure I'd qualify this as
a bug.

Mo, do you have any reason to have both, or do you have a project
that defines both?

Regards,
Mumit



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