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From: csran@warwick.ac.uk (Mr S J Russell)
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.programmer
Subject: What is __acrtused?
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Date: 12 Nov 90 15:42:15 GMT
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        Hi each and everyone,

I have a problem, but enough about my private life, no seriously I do. It's
called MSC 4.0. I have a small chunk of assembly in a file that handles
startup and initialization. I assemble this and everything is great.
I would like to link to this a .obj file containing a few functions written in
C. The problem is this. I don't want to include any library functions so I use
/NOD at link time. However the linker generates the following error

Unresolved externals:

fred.obj(fred.c)
        __acrtused

Does anybody know what __acrtused is or does. Is it used. I cannot find
reference to it in an ordinary C programme that has been compiled and linked.
Codeview seems to know about it because it returns its value/address
without any problems. The startup code doesn't seem to use it and I
certainly don't. Where does it come from. By the way I've tried compiling with
the /Zl flag.
If anyone can shed a spot of light on the subject I would very much appreciate
it.

        Yours desperately needing a newer compiler/linker,
                Stu (sjr@uk.ac.warwick.cs)

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