system 5 vrs. bsd4.3 question

[Roger B.A. Klorese]

In article <454 at odin.SGI.COM> gavin at krypton.sgi.com (Gavin A. Bell) writes:
>A missing semicolon probably make the code look like:
>struct foo {...} main(argc,argv) { ... }
>... that is, main is a 'struct foo'.  Most compilers don't care, but
>the Mips compiler used on SGI machines seems to get quite confused.

It doesn't get confused; it simply uses a different format for the
parameter list when functions return struct.  A dummy first entry is
added to hold the address of an instance of the appropriate struct
into which the return value is placed.  Unfortunately, the startup
code, which always calls "main" as an int function, expects argc to
be there.
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