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Subject: Re: 4.2 extern a DISASTER (Flame)
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An addendum to my previous note.  Dennis Ritchie has commented in this forum on
the suitability of the strict interpretation of my last example.  In a
nutshell, he said that it was a mistake to put it in the manual at all, and
it was there for a single machine (Honeywell running GCOS) whose linker had
arbitrary restrictions on the use of common symbols.  I'm not sure exactly
what the ANSI (draft) standard says on this matter, as I don't have my copy
handy.
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	Marty Shannon
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