entry at other than main (was want to know)

[Doug Gwyn]

In article <15127 at dartvax.Dartmouth.EDU> ari at eleazar.dartmouth.edu (Ari Halberstadt) writes:
>Just have an option to the linker telling it what the entry point is.

A language-independent linker cannot possibly know what a programming
language's startup requirements are, therefore it cannot arrange the
set-up necessary for arbitrary entry points.