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Subject: Re: Xnext (mouse-X)
Message-ID: <1991Mar21.045225.24943@kithrup.COM>
From: sef@kithrup.COM (Sean Eric Fagan)
Date: Thu, 21 Mar 91 04:52:25 GMT
References: <1991Mar20.130027.17254@thunder.mcrcim.mcgill.edu> 
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In article <1991Mar20.210206.29985@cunixf.cc.columbia.edu> howie@cunixf.cc.columbia.edu (Howie Kaye) writes:
>This is because the global variables in the X libraries are
>uninitialized.  So, the linker doesn't put them in the data segment,
>but in another "Common" segment.  They don't get put into the symbol
>table of the library.  Evidently, this is conformant with ANSI C.

This has nothing to do with ANSI C.  It has to do with how unix linkers
work.

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