question about the garbage collector

[Sean Kelly]

doob wrote:
> Jarrett Billingsley Wrote:
> 
>> "Sean Kelly" <sean at f4.ca> wrote in message 
>> news:esesnv$di1$1 at digitalmars.com...
>>
>>> You only need to do this if you're creating a D dynamic library, because 
>>> in that case the default startup process is not executed and the GC is 
>>> therefore not initialized.
>> You can also do it for regular Windows programs (i.e. in your WinMain), but 
>> in that case you can also just use the standard D "int/void main()" and use 
>> some Windows API functions to get the values which are usually passed as 
>> parameters to WinMain.  This way you don't have to do the D initialization 
>> crap; D will handle that for you. 
> 
> So you're saying that if I want to create a regular windows program I don't need to initialize the garbage collector because it will do that by default and it will handle the C stuff also? 

If you want to write a normal D program for Windows then you don't need 
to do anything special.  What do you mean by C stuff?