Is it legal to recurse into main() in C++? [duplicate]

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According to the standard in 3.6.1/3, it’s not :

The function main shall not be used
(3.2) within a program

The definition of used being :

An object or non-overloaded
function is used if its name appears in a potentially-evaluated expression.

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