Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!clyde!att!pacbell!ditka!stb!michael
From: michael@stb.UUCP (Michael)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.tech
Subject: Resident Librarys Auto-open (was: Re: Font help needed)
Keywords: global
Message-ID: <10433@stb.UUCP>
Date: 18 Jun 88 19:40:39 GMT
References: <62300001@hobbiton> <62300003@hobbiton> <3651@ece-csc.UUCP> <2930@tekig4.TEK.COM>
Reply-To: michael@stb.UUCP (Michael)
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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?

Doesn't AmigaDos support automatic opening of rom resident libraries? Why
don't Manx and Lattice use that?

>
>Dejectedly,
>
>Brian Rhodefer   ...!tektronix!tekig4!brianr

			Michael
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