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From: ark@alice.UUCP (Andrew Koenig)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: C linkage query
Message-ID: <9449@alice.UUCP>
Date: 8 Jun 89 04:15:50 GMT
Organization: AT&T Bell Laboratories, Liberty Corner NJ
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Does anyone have a C compiler + linker incapable of handling this:

	extern int foo;

	main() { }

That is: are there any C implementations that turn an
`extern' declaration for a variable that is never actually
referenced into a genuine external reference that inhibits
linking?
-- 
				--Andrew Koenig
				  ark@europa.att.com