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From: tim@hoptoad.uucp (Tim Maroney)
Newsgroups: comp.software-eng,comp.misc
Subject: Re: Coding standards (was Re: Programmer productivity)
Message-ID: <9228@hoptoad.uucp>
Date: 8 Dec 89 21:52:22 GMT
References: <1989Dec5.152225.25770@twwells.com> <14836@well.UUCP> <1989Dec6.154103.2078@twwells.com>
Reply-To: tim@hoptoad.UUCP (Tim Maroney)
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In article <1989Dec6.154103.2078@twwells.com> bill@twwells.com (T.
William Wells) writes:
>Eh? I've worked on a dozen or so non-Unix machines. Only a few of
>them were capable of taking apart an object file and using only
>the routines you needed. And those linkers could not be used with
>a C compiler that did not play games with static variable names.
>(They had no notion of static at all.)
>
>Care to name some specific systems where the linker could take
>apart an object file, and for which a reasonable C compiler
>exists?

MPW for the Apple Macintosh.  I just elaborately verified that the
linker does this for a skeptical friend.  The C compiler is nearly a
full ANSI C, and it certainly does include "statics".  I just did
another test, and it even deletes unused "static" functions.  It's
actually a pretty strong development system overall; I've been praising
it on the net ever since I was one of the original beta testers.
-- 
Tim Maroney, Mac Software Consultant, sun!hoptoad!tim, tim@toad.com

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