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From: woerz@iaoobelix.UUCP
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Subject: Re: Re: portability and standards - (nf)
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Date: Sun, 28-Jun-87 22:44:00 EDT
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Posted: Sun Jun 28 22:44:00 1987
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> /***** iaoobelix:comp.lang.c / brl-adm!DRIEHUIS%HLERUL5.BITNET@w /  5:49 pm  Jun 26, 1987*/
> ...
> > Under Primos there is another wrinkle to take into account.  The Primos
> > C compiler insists that every file have an actual entry point.  (I.e.,
> > you can't have a file only consisting of definitions.)
> VMS C has exactly the same bug. It took me quite some time to find this
> out, because for some reason the compiler nor the linker complained
> about what must have been an unresolved external in some source file.
>                                         - Bert
> ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
> Bert Driehuis, LICOR Leiden, <DRIEHUIS@HLERUL5>,
>                 and VNG The Hague <no-name@no-net>
>                 (I speak for neither of the above)
> /* ---------- */

I don't know what version of VAX C you have, with version 2.2-015 it
worked well to have only definitions of variables in a file. It
compiled without problems.

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Dieter Woerz
Fraunhofer Institut fuer Arbeitswirtschaft und Organisation
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