Path: utzoo!attcan!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!rutgers!mcnc!spl
From: spl@mcnc.org (Steve Lamont)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: C linkage query
Message-ID: <4667@alvin.mcnc.org>
Date: 8 Jun 89 11:34:35 GMT
References: <9449@alice.UUCP<
Reply-To: spl@mcnc.org.UUCP (Steve Lamont)
Organization: Microelectronics Center of NC; RTP, NC
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In article <9449@alice.UUCP< ark@alice.UUCP (Andrew Koenig) writes:
<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

Works for me.  That is, it compiles and links on our BSD VAX and my SGI
IRIS 4D/120.

Hope this was the answer you were looking for :-).
-- 
							spl
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