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From: jcmorris@mwunix.mitre.org (Joe Morris)
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.programmer
Subject: Re: What is __acrtused?
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Date: 19 Nov 90 20:52:50 GMT
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prk@planet.bt.co.uk (KnightRider) writes:

>kdq@demott.COM (Kevin D. Quitt) writes:

>__acrtused

>My understanding is that this is used to indicate to the linker whether
>or not to pull in the C run-time library.  

>The documentation for this is to be found in descriptions of how to build
>dynamic link-libraries for OS/2.

You could also look at the assembly source code for the routine: it's part
of the optional startup sources in the C distribution diskettes.  Memory
says it's in \c\source\dos.  The attached comment is something along the 
order of "funny number to bring in startup code, not likely to be
duplicated in SYMDEB".

Joe Morris