Can we write a program without main() function?

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Can we write a program without main() function?..

Answer / rahul

no we can't write a program with out main function, this
function is the main function which usually help OS to kill
the process that has executed, like in JAVA main() is used
as a thread whose wqork is to kill the executed process and
mark those as GC( Garbage collection)

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Can we write a program without main() function?..

Answer / rahul

no we can write a program with out main function, this
function is the main function which usually help OS to kill
the process that has executed, like in JAVA main() is used
as a thread whose wqork is to kill the executed process and
mark those as GC( Garbage collection)

Is This Answer Correct ?    10 Yes 7 No

Can we write a program without main() function?..

Answer / vignesh1988i

as for i know in C , we cant write a program wit out main()..
since whatever function we write (user defining functions).
it will start executing the statements only from the
main().... so only we will say tht FIRST EXECUTABLE FUNCTION
IS THE MAIN() FUNCTION.........

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Can we write a program without main() function?..

Answer / gandhi gorantla

Yes we can,try it
class d
{
static{
System.exit(0);
}
}
it compiles and executes without error in java.

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Can we write a program without main() function?..

Answer / infestant mongrel

@Rahul
In java, the job of killing the threads who have done their job (and garbage collection) is done by the java runtime environment. The main thread may even itself come to an end before all its child threads have completed their execution.

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Can we write a program without main() function?..

Answer / samarth

yes, we can write C programs , without main() functions.
though they are not the kind of programs we use in everyday
life .For example linux kernel source code do not have any
main() function.

for details u can visit :

http://samarthonweb.blogspot.com/2009/08/c-programe-with-no-main-function.html

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Can we write a program without main() function?..

Answer / vaibhav

no because every c prog. can compile from main function.
but when we write a code for creating a header file, we
cant use main function.

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Can we write a program without main() function?..

Answer / revathipawar

no we cant write bcoz main() tells to the processor that it
is starting of the c programming

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Can we write a program without main() function?..

Answer / rajkumar

I think its possiblle through macros ....like this

#define main() start
start
{
printf("Hai");
}

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