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		rramadass on Jan 22, 2023 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Who Needs Main() Anyway? 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.

sargstuff on Jan 22, 2023 [–]

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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