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From: sasaki@HARVARD.HARVARD.EDU (Marty Sasaki)
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Subject: VAX C run time library
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Date: Mon, 12-May-86 17:49:20 EDT
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Something I learned at the DECUS Symposium...

If you put VAXCRTL.EXE into a library (say sys$library:imagelib.olb),
and then link against the image library it, you will get errors,
especially with i/o routines that use standard in and out. The linker
fails to overlay the data psects properly.

The solution is to not place VAXCRTL.EXE into a library and to link
against it explicitly. The guy DEC with the C RTL hoped that the bug
in the linker will be fixed soon, but that it definitely wasn't fixed
in VMS 4.4.
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