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| From | Ben Bacarisse <ben.usenet@bsb.me.uk> |
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| Newsgroups | comp.lang.c |
| Subject | Re: To include or not to include |
| Date | 2016-09-27 14:27 +0100 |
| Organization | A noiseless patient Spider |
| Message-ID | <87vaxhbhhi.fsf@bsb.me.uk> (permalink) |
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supercat@casperkitty.com writes: > On Monday, September 26, 2016 at 7:25:56 PM UTC-5, James Harris wrote: >> I've been reading the standard's /linkage/ section again. It seems to be >> saying that certain identifiers with the same name are merged into one >> (if you like, "linked" together): >> >> Identifiers with external linkage are merged into one across all the >> translation units that make up a program. > > Not all linkers can handle that, and there is no good reason the language > should not be usable on linkers that cannot. You know that C is usable with such linkers, yes? As you say, there is no good reason to prevent C being used on such systems, so the standard does *not* prevent C from being used on them. > An approach which is vastly more useful than throwing up one's hands in > despair and saying that platforms with primitive linkers can't run C is > to say that exactly one translation unit must have a declaration which > is not qualified "extern". The actual rule used by C is that if a declared function or object is actually used, there must be exactly one definition of it. I think it's a neater way of putting it. <snip> -- Ben.
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Re: To include or not to include Ben Bacarisse <ben.usenet@bsb.me.uk> - 2016-09-28 01:50 +0100
Re: To include or not to include BartC <bc@freeuk.com> - 2016-09-28 10:55 +0100
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Re: To include or not to include Ike Naar <ike@iceland.freeshell.org> - 2016-09-28 19:13 +0000
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Re: To include or not to include James Harris <james.harris.1@gmail.com> - 2016-09-27 20:57 +0100
Re: To include or not to include supercat@casperkitty.com - 2016-09-27 07:25 -0700
Re: To include or not to include Ben Bacarisse <ben.usenet@bsb.me.uk> - 2016-09-28 00:28 +0100
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Re: To include or not to include Ben Bacarisse <ben.usenet@bsb.me.uk> - 2016-09-30 16:06 +0100
Re: To include or not to include Ben Bacarisse <ben.usenet@bsb.me.uk> - 2016-09-27 13:53 +0100
Re: To include or not to include James Harris <james.harris.1@gmail.com> - 2016-09-30 19:46 +0100
Re: To include or not to include Ben Bacarisse <ben.usenet@bsb.me.uk> - 2016-09-30 20:27 +0100
Re: To include or not to include Reinhardt Behm <rbehm@hushmail.com> - 2016-09-25 23:27 +0800
Re: To include or not to include Jerry Stuckle <jstucklex@attglobal.net> - 2016-09-25 11:38 -0400
Re: To include or not to include Reinhardt Behm <rbehm@hushmail.com> - 2016-09-25 23:40 +0800
Re: To include or not to include BartC <bc@freeuk.com> - 2016-09-25 15:06 +0100
Re: To include or not to include Jerry Stuckle <jstucklex@attglobal.net> - 2016-09-25 11:49 -0400
Re: To include or not to include BartC <bc@freeuk.com> - 2016-09-25 18:05 +0100
Re: To include or not to include Jerry Stuckle <jstucklex@attglobal.net> - 2016-09-25 16:42 -0400
Re: To include or not to include BartC <bc@freeuk.com> - 2016-09-25 21:53 +0100
Re: To include or not to include Jerry Stuckle <jstucklex@attglobal.net> - 2016-09-25 17:57 -0400
Re: To include or not to include Ben Bacarisse <ben.usenet@bsb.me.uk> - 2016-09-25 21:20 +0100
Re: To include or not to include BartC <bc@freeuk.com> - 2016-09-25 21:49 +0100
Re: To include or not to include Ben Bacarisse <ben.usenet@bsb.me.uk> - 2016-09-26 00:40 +0100
Re: To include or not to include David Brown <david.brown@hesbynett.no> - 2016-09-23 14:56 +0200
Re: To include or not to include Richard Heathfield <rjh@cpax.org.uk> - 2016-09-23 13:31 +0100
Re: To include or not to include James Harris <james.harris.1@gmail.com> - 2016-09-23 13:52 +0100
Re: To include or not to include Richard Heathfield <rjh@cpax.org.uk> - 2016-09-23 14:35 +0100
Re: To include or not to include Ben Bacarisse <ben.usenet@bsb.me.uk> - 2016-09-23 18:55 +0100
Re: To include or not to include Richard Heathfield <rjh@cpax.org.uk> - 2016-09-23 20:33 +0100
Re: To include or not to include Joe Pfeiffer <pfeiffer@cs.nmsu.edu> - 2016-09-23 08:22 -0600
Re: To include or not to include Richard Damon <Richard@Damon-Family.org> - 2016-09-23 11:37 -0400
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