C startup in /lib/crt0.o

Andrew Koenig ark at alice.UucP
Tue Apr 29 00:13:59 AEST 1986


> I see that the C startup routine _start in /lib/crt0.o under 4.2BSD
> is a bit over-protective, in that it calls routine _exit (rather than
> the system-call __exit) when it terminates.

If it didn't do that, the last buffer would go unflushed
on all output files.



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