Question

How to call a function before main() in C Programming?

Answer 1

To call a function before the main(), pragma startup directive should be used. E.g.-

#pragma startup fun
void fun()
{
printf("In fun\n");
}
main()
{
printf("In main\n");
}

The output of the above program will be -

In fun
In main

This pragma directive, on the other hand, is compiler-dependent. This is not supported by gcc. As a result, it will ignore the startup directive and produce no error. But the output, in that case, will be -

In main