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catamorphism opened this issue May 17, 2012 · 4 comments
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Add a -main-is flag to rustc #2403

catamorphism opened this issue May 17, 2012 · 4 comments
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A-frontend Area: Compiler frontend (errors, parsing and HIR) A-testsuite Area: The testsuite used to check the correctness of rustc C-enhancement Category: An issue proposing an enhancement or a PR with one.
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Add a -main-is flag to specify the name of the main function if it's called something other than main. Then allow it to be set if only trans is getting called, so the FIXME in front::test::fold_mod can be resolved.
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Why not an attribute?

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That would be ok too!

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brson commented May 23, 2012

Should be an attribute.

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Closing this as I think #4207 covers the same issue and has more discussion.

bors added a commit to rust-lang-ci/rust that referenced this issue Sep 22, 2022
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Auto merge of rust-lang#2403 - RalfJung:rustup, r=RalfJung
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tshepang pushed a commit to tshepang/rust that referenced this issue Jun 2, 2025
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Merge pull request rust-lang#2403 from rust-lang/tshepang-patch-1
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