is main() provided by a library valid C ?

[Peter S. Mazinger]

Hello!

Is it valid C to have main() been provided by a library instead of an 
object at link time?

2 apps (bind and subversion) fail their tests, because the object 
providing main() is packed into an archive or is provided by a shared 
library and the library is used at link time instead of the object.

The failure at link time:
ld: protected symbol 'main' isn't defined
ld: final link failed: Nonrepresentable section on output

If I modify the Makefile to use the object instead of the library then 
linking succeeds.

The circumstances:
The weak definition of main() is moved from libc.so to crt1.o written in 
asm as '.protected main'.

Peter

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