From: arne@vajhoej.dk   
      
   On 1/13/2025 9:11 PM, John Reagan wrote:   
   > On 1/13/2025 5:55 PM, Arne Vajhøj wrote:   
   >> On 1/13/2025 5:18 PM, Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote:   
   >>> On Mon, 13 Jan 2025 13:45:50 -0500, Arne Vajhøj wrote:   
   >>>> There are probably a lot of shareable images written in C out there   
   >>>> where the developer has no idea that they are runnable or what code   
   >>>> will   
   >>>> run.   
   >>>   
   >>> If it has no main(), then nothing will run.   
   >>   
   >> That is what the developer thinks.   
   >>   
   >> But it is not so.   
   >>   
   >> $ type lawrence.c   
   >> #include    
   >>   
   >> int foobar()   
   >> {   
   >>      printf("Hi Lawrence\n");   
   >>      return 1;   
   >> }   
   >> $ cc lawrence   
   >> $ link/share  lawrence   
   >> $ run lawrence   
   >> Hi Lawrence   
   >>   
   >> No main() and it runs anyway.   
   >>   
   > COBOL paragraphs behave like C.  First routine/PARAGRAPH gets a WEAK   
   > transfer address.  Linker finds the first one.   
      
   I have many prejudices about COBOL developers.   
      
   One of them is that they don't create shareable images.   
      
   :-)   
      
   Arne   
      
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