Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Path: utzoo!henry
From: henry@utzoo.uucp (Henry Spencer)
Subject: Re: Question about linking files
Message-ID: <1989Mar27.194244.19463@utzoo.uucp>
Organization: U of Toronto Zoology
References: <18925@iuvax.cs.indiana.edu> <16541@mimsy.UUCP> <16546@mimsy.UUCP> <10126@bloom-beacon.MIT.EDU>
Date: Mon, 27 Mar 89 19:42:44 GMT

In article <10126@bloom-beacon.MIT.EDU> jfc@athena.mit.edu (John F Carr) writes:
>(My guess at the answer to the above questions: "the standard can not attempt
>to define behavior when different compilers are used for different source
>files, or when interacting with languages other than standard C.")

Right.  It is not guaranteed that it will even be possible.  (Plausible
example:  an interpretive implementation might not support such things
at all.)  These are "quality of implementation" issues.
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