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From: rwhite@nusdhub.UUCP (Robert C. White Jr.)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: MAJOR ANSI C WART (my opinion, of course)
Message-ID: <174@nusdhub.UUCP>
Date: Fri, 23-Oct-87 15:01:19 EST
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Posted: Fri Oct 23 15:01:19 1987
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Summary: Not ANSI's Job.

In article <4807@oberon.USC.EDU>, blarson@skat.usc.edu (Bob Larson) writes:
> of ANSI C currently under development, but couldn't systems
> constrained to using an obsolete linker (6 char external) have an
> intermeadiate pass between the C compiler and the linker to merge all...

As I understand it, many of them do.  As far as ANSI's input on the subject
I think there job does NOT include telling developers and others how
to _implement_ the standard.

With the standard in place as it is now, any who care to may do just that.
To require it in the standard would be murder.

Rob.