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From: gwyn@smoke.brl.mil (Doug Gwyn)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: An Ubiquitous C bug
Message-ID: <14975@smoke.brl.mil>
Date: 25 Jan 91 17:18:05 GMT
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Organization: U.S. Army Ballistic Research Laboratory, APG, MD.
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In article <156097@felix.UUCP> asylvain@felix.UUCP (Alvin "the Chipmunk" Sylvain) writes:
>I think it would be more correct and portable if the DOS linker avoided
>loading the function at address 0.

I disagree.  This is a combined language+language_implementation constraint,
and is no business of the linker.  In fact, I think the linker was being
misused since a trivial way to satisfy the constraint would be to link a
startup object module first, and that is probably what the compiler manuals
say to do.