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From: jimm@amiga.UUCP (Jim Mackraz)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.tech
Subject: Re: Font help needed
Keywords: global
Message-ID: <2408@amiga.UUCP>
Date: 14 Jun 88 17:39:00 GMT
References: <62300001@hobbiton> <62300003@hobbiton> <3651@ece-csc.UUCP> <2930@tekig4.TEK.COM>
Reply-To: jimm@cloyd.UUCP (Jim Mackraz)
Organization: Commodore-Amiga Inc, Los Gatos CA
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In article <2930@tekig4.TEK.COM> brianr@tekig4.UUCP (Brian Rhodefer) writes:
)Am I all wet in thinking that the fact one can write code that
)puts the library base vectors into globals with names that don't
)agree with the libraries' declared globals,  and then compile
)and link this code with those libraries WITHOUT THE SLIGHTEST COMPLAINT
)from the linker demonstrates a serious weakness in the language?
)Dejectedly,
)Brian Rhodefer   ...!tektronix!tekig4!brianr

Yet another person complaining about the C language when the problem is
in the implementation, and in this case, not even the implementation
of the C part, but the Amiga interface.

Linker I use will complain if you call an Intition function and don't
have IntuitionBase defined in YOUR code (you don't declare it extern,
you define it).  Works great.  Nobody keeps you from stuffing
a pointer to your middle name in IntuitionBase, though.

I claim the serious weakness is not in the language in this case.

	jimm
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