Re: C coding guidelines

In <I2Mpm.179471$0e4.110025@xxxxxxxxxxxx>, Tech07 wrote:

Richard Heathfield wrote:

<snip>

The entry point(s) of a DLL must be a function (or functions)
within that DLL.

<snip>

It doesn't matter what text is in your source file.

Actually, I think it /does/ matter in the sense that the true entry
point into source code is a part of the source code. Nevertheless,
for *your* argument it *does* matter what is in the generated DLL
itself. Recognising this, I posted the output of strings(1) on the
..dll file itself, in a reply some days ago which you should still be
able to find, upthread. It contains no DLLMain.

What matters is
what exists after the compiler/linker get done with it.

Right. And after the compiler (not linker, obviously, because it's a
library) is done with it, it contains no functions whatsoever with
the name DLLMain or anything like that name.

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