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From: mcgrath%helen.Berkeley.EDU@GINGER.BERKELEY.EDU (Roland McGrath)
Newsgroups: gnu.utils.bug
Subject: GNU ld exits with success even when it doesn't write an executable
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Date: 24 Sep 88 00:29:16 GMT
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After giving me some error messages for undefined symbols:
      file.c:123: Undefined symbol _foobar referenced from text
and NOT producing an a.out, ld exits with 0.