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From: sdyer@bbncc5.UUCP (Steve Dyer)
Newsgroups: net.bugs.4bsd
Subject: Re: Lex bugs
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Date: Wed, 4-Sep-85 11:30:18 EDT
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Posted: Wed Sep  4 11:30:18 1985
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Without commenting on the bugs you are seeing in lex, it should be
emphasized that handing "ld" a C-language object file alone is
strictly verboten unless you know exactly what you are doing, since
the run-time startup prefix needs to be included.  In a sense,
you are 'working beneath' the abstraction provided you by "cc".
You could have avoided this by saying

cc lex.yy.o -ll

which turns into

ld /lib/crt0.o lex.yy.o -ll -lc
-- 
/Steve Dyer
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