Re: [AD] Magic main in Windows

[Angelo Mottola <a.mottola@xxxxxxxxxx>]

> Hmm... I was under the impression that MacOS X didn't need the
> END_OF_MAIN()... looks like I was mistaken. Angelo, any possibility of
> eliminating it?

Not really... :(

The real main() under OSX is actually even executed in a secondary 
thread... The main thread is special as you can fetch system events 
from inside it only.
So the END_OF_MAIN macro under OSX creates a Cocoa application and 
executes the user main in a newly spawned thread, then keeps on 
analizying system events until program ends.
Originally I made Allegro to have the main() symbol defined inside the 
lib itself; later I adopted the SDL way and used a separated static 
lib: liballeg-main.a. The code of this module is held in 
src/macosx/main.m, for anyone interested (you could see why I think 
it's not possible to remove the END_OF_MAIN from the OSX port)

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