From: utzoo!decvax!cca!dan@Bbn-Unix@sri-unix Newsgroups: net.unix-wizards Title: Re: Library functions with non-integer return types Article-I.D.: sri-unix.3343 Posted: Sat Sep 18 01:53:52 1982 Received: Wed Sep 22 10:40:13 1982 From: Dan FranklinDate: 15 Sep 1982 13:18:00 EDT (Wednesday) Regardless of what most aassemblers and loaders may do, many C compilers (including 4.1 BSD and the Ritchie compilers) do not generate .globls if you declare, but do not reference, an external function. So just because stdio.h declares fopen, freopen, fdopen, ftell, and fgets doesn't mean that all those routines are included in your object files.