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		ronsor on May 4, 2018 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: What happens before main() is executed in C and wh... totally unportable and undefined behavior

dfox on May 4, 2018 [–]

I have strong feeling that while this obviously works on i386 linux (and probably any unix for that matter) if it works on even amd64 it's just a pure coincidence.

colejohnson66 on May 5, 2018 | [–]

It shouldn’t work on amd64 because the x64 calling convention puts the arguments in the registers first

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