[D-runtime] What is the point of _d_run_main() in druntime/src/rt/dmain2.d?

[Jacob Carlborg]

On 10 aug 2013, at 00:04, Walter Bright <walter at digitalmars.com> wrote:

> I cannot see any use for it, though there was obviously one in mind when it was created. Does anyone remember? Does anyone use it?


I guess it's so you can implement your own C main function and call "_d_run_main" from it. This is also what the comments say. GDC, and possibly LDC, used this approach long before DMD, perhaps a change to unify the different runtimes. Here's the commit that introduced it, if it helps:

https://github.com/D-Programming-Language/druntime/commit/278968f5029f0cc9137a0d21c641d64604674be2

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/Jacob Carlborg