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submitted 5 days ago by strlcpy@lemmy.sdf.org to c/programmer_humor@programming.dev

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[–] HappyFrog@lemmy.blahaj.zone 12 points 5 days ago (1 children)

What? Why an underscore?

[–] strlcpy@lemmy.sdf.org 33 points 5 days ago (2 children)

It's a joke on the "main" name vs. the main() function. That's normally considered the entry point, but really _start() is the OG entry, used by the runtime to do setup before calling main().

[–] HappyFrog@lemmy.blahaj.zone 8 points 5 days ago

I see, thanks :3

[–] SpaceNoodle@lemmy.world 5 points 5 days ago

Embedded systems engineers do it in Reset_Handler