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Main function in LLVM should either take argv/argc arguments or not exist at all

Open sampsyo opened this issue 7 years ago • 0 comments

Currently, the main function in generated LLVM programs takes no "normal" arguments and an environment structure pointer. However, the main function for executable programs should instead take the traditional C argc/argv arguments so it can be invoked. (As an additional optimization, we could even imagine disabling the environment pointer argument completely when a function has no free variables—and main is guaranteed to be closed.)

On the other hand, when we just want to link the generated code into a larger program, perhaps it would be nice to have an option to disable the main function altogether.

sampsyo avatar May 16 '17 14:05 sampsyo