Why do we have Dmain?
Dukc
ajieskola at gmail.com
Fri Oct 22 08:38:09 UTC 2021
On Friday, 22 October 2021 at 07:00:25 UTC, Mike Parker wrote:
> The entry point for your program is a function `_start`. That's
> implemented in the C runtime, which all D programs depend on.
> It in turn calls `main`, as it does for C and C++ programs.
It is possible, in both C and D, to write your own `_start` and
not depend on the C runtime.
This is something you want to do only if necessary though - C
runtime is so small that you don't want to drop it for any
realistic desktop or even a smartphone program. The usual reason
to do this is if there is no C runtime easily available - meaning
mainly embedded targets.
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