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From: lamont@uts.amdahl.com (Rick LaMont)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: Problems with malloc()
Message-ID: <57Dk0195504o00@amdahl.uts.amdahl.com>
Date: 3 Apr 91 05:14:04 GMT
References: <1991Apr1.171908.2198@cs.mcgill.ca>
Reply-To: lamont@amdahl.uts.amdahl.com (Rick LaMont)
Organization: Amdahl Corporation, Sunnyvale CA
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In article <1991Apr1.171908.2198@cs.mcgill.ca> storm@cs.mcgill.ca (Marc WANDSCHNEIDER) writes:
>m,m1...m5 are all pointers to a struct of type Message (ie, they're type Link)
>
>	m4 = msgallloc();   /* <--- WARNING 1 (see below) */
>
>Now, the problem is, TC++ 1.0 will compile this when I run it from the  DOS
>prompt, but will give me the warning NON-PORTABLE FUNCTION CONVERSION IN
>MAIN at the line m4 = msgalloc(); as indicated above.
>
>However, when I choose BUILD ALL it under the IDE of TC, it SOMETIMES
> generates the same line as an ERROR, but it always generates a LINK ERROR
>which states UNDEFINED SYMBOL _MSGALLOC IN MODULE QUEUES.C.
>

Since m1-m5 are declared and used consistently, I suspect that m4 is
also a macro or function.  Check your header files, even the system
header files.  I've had lint complain about variables named y0 or y1
because of system Bessel functions.

Just a hunch.


Rick LaMont