[DanielBMarkham]

Not sure the title's question was answered. At the end he just said "And all this time we’ve been ignoring the warning message about main not being a function :)"

I remember 20 years or ago writing my first C/C++ function where I popped out to inline ASM. I was like, wow! I'm in complete control of this box! (It was mostly copied code. My ASM-foo is weak) I really liked the fact that I could either code in these really abstract types -- or be concerned with what the stack looks like on entering a function. So I _think_ I know the answer to the question.

Instead of ignoring the error, I was thinking that you could just mangle the link file and make the entry point whatever you want, right? I could have a program that consisted of "void x", then continue along the lines of the articles with the number list.

Heck, once you start pulling the threads apart like this, the entire structure falls apart. Your source code could look like anything you want it to look like. And that's cool.