An Ubiquitous C bug

[Doug Gwyn]

In article <s64421.664559119 at zeus> s64421 at zeus.usq.EDU.AU (house ron) writes:
>I tried Quick C, TopSpeed C and Watcom C (a real loser).

It occurs to me that you might be linking the object modules without
preceding them by a run-time startup module (that sets up the environment,
then invoked main() with appropriate arguments, and after main() returns
invokes exit() etc.).  If the compiler documentation specifies a certain
way of linking, then to assure standard conformance you must follow the
vendor's instructions exactly.