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From: ark@alice.UUCP (Andrew Koenig)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: C linkage query
Message-ID: <9467@alice.UUCP>
Date: 13 Jun 89 01:01:22 GMT
References: <9449@alice.UUCP> <Jun.8.14.27.29.1989.6740@math.rutgers.edu> <186@cbnewsd.ATT.COM>
Organization: AT&T Bell Laboratories, Liberty Corner NJ
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In article <186@cbnewsd.ATT.COM>, tainter@cbnewsd.ATT.COM (johnathan.tainter) writes:
> In article <1795@auspex.auspex.com> guy@auspex.auspex.com (Guy Harris) writes:
> >I.e., if you compile a file containing
> >	extern int foo;
> >	main() {}
> >and link that *with no other object files and with no libraries that
> >define "foo"*, will the link fail?

I recently asked a similar question.

I have since learned that this is explicitly legal in ANSI C.
The only compilers people have mentioned that DON'T handle
it correctly are on desktop micros of various sorts.
-- 
				--Andrew Koenig
				  ark@europa.att.com