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From: eastman@csa2.lbl.gov (JACK EASTMAN)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.programmer
Subject: Re: What does a guy have to do to use ctype.h ????
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Date: 26 Dec 90 02:28:01 GMT
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In article <2569@krafla.rhi.hi.is>, aries@rhi.hi.is (Mimir Reynisson) writes...
> 
>What on earth am I doing wrong in the following test programme??
>The compiler says it all fine and dandy, but it won't link.
> 
>#include <stdio.h>
>#include <ctype.h>
> 
>main()
>{
>    if (isalpha('a'))
>	printf("say something");
>    else printf("say something else");
>}
> 
>The linker chokes on it and spits out the following error message:
> 
>### Link: Error: Undefined entry, name: (Error 28) "__p_CType"
>  Referenced from: main in file: test.c.o
>### Link: Errors prevented normal completion.
> 
Your headers and libraries are parts of different MPW distributions.  The array 
__p_CType is called three different things in the 3.0, 3.1 and 3.2 releases. 
Bring everything up to date and you'll be ok.

-Jack Eastman
-Berkeley Systems, Inc.