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From: gwyn@brl-smoke.ARPA (Doug Gwyn )
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: Questions on X3J11 draft
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Date: Mon, 15-Dec-86 11:49:28 EST
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In article <780@wjvax.wjvax.UUCP> brett@wjvax.UUCP (Brett Galloway) writes:
>My real question is in implementation -- are there any loaders/compilers which
>(stupidly) link in text which is referenced in an extern but not used?

Yes, there are, but a simple trick in the compiler can avoid generating
references to unused external names.