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From: dhesi@bsu-cs.UUCP (Rahul Dhesi)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: "Numerical Recipes in C" is nonport
Message-ID: <3981@bsu-cs.UUCP>
Date: 16 Sep 88 17:40:41 GMT
References: <5162@hoptoad.uucp> <225800069@uxe.cso.uiuc.edu> <8507@smoke.ARPA>
Reply-To: dhesi@bsu-cs.UUCP (Rahul Dhesi)
Organization: CS Dept, Ball St U, Muncie, Indiana
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In article <8507@smoke.ARPA> gwyn@brl.arpa (Doug Gwyn (VLD/VMB) <gwyn>) writes:
>C extern names are not necessarily unique beyond 6 characters,...
>But the fact is, many C
>implementors are not in a position to improve the linker that
>will of necessity be used with the object code their compiler
>generates.

(This is not meant to be a flame, just a comment.)

I think Doug Gwyn exaggerates in saying "many" and "of necessity".
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Rahul Dhesi         UUCP:  <backbones>!{iuvax,pur-ee,uunet}!bsu-cs!dhesi