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From: emjej@uokvax.UUCP
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Subject: Re: Strange C-Linker Errors-Help!
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Date: Wed, 19-Mar-86 18:32:00 EST
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/* Written 12:29 pm  Mar 17, 1986 by knudsen@ihwpt.UUCP in net.micro.6809 */
Also, is "ident" supposed to work on C libraries?
It always gives me "incorrect header" error.
Is that normal?  Ident works fine on "os9boot".
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C libraries are concatenations of .r files, which are NOT OS-9 modules,
even though the compiler docs misnames them "modules." (WOOF! on the
doc writer for that.)  You can see what's in there with the "rdump"
utility that should come with the compiler.

The reason .r files aren't modules is that they are designed to work
with a woofish, old-fashioned static linker of a kind that a language
that TRULY uses OS-9's advantages over Unix would not use.  Someone
needs to fix that, preferably by doing a Modula-2 or Ada or Russell
compiler RIGHT for OS-9.

						James Jones