[Gllug] data segment vs stack

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On Tue, 14 Feb 2006, Christian Smith announced authoritatively:
> main() is just a function like any other C function

Pedant point: not quite. It may have uniquely weird calling conventions,
stack alignment requirements, and so on, although this should be
invisible from within the program.

One difference between C and C++ is that in C++ you aren't allowed to
call main() recursively (which presumably also applies to calling it
from C in a mixed-language program). However, only obfuscated C code
contests ever do things like that anyway.

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