[m-dev.] main as an exported predicate

[Fergus Henderson]

On 02-May-1998, Thomas Charles CONWAY <conway at cs.mu.OZ.AU> wrote:
> 
> Main/2 is handled rather specially in the runtime at the moment: the
> runtime contains a hard-coded call to nonprofcall for main. Is there
> any reason (other than hysterical) that main shouldn't be handled like
> the library_initializer - and be a predicate automatically exported to
> C and then called via the usual C-calls-Mercury mechanism?

There are a few reasons (profiling, benchmarking, low-level debugging)
but I think they're all historical.

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