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From: gwyn@smoke.BRL.MIL (Doug Gwyn)
Newsgroups: comp.std.c
Subject: Re: Mixing compilers
Message-ID: <11162@smoke.BRL.MIL>
Date: 28 Sep 89 02:23:25 GMT
References: <816@tuminfo1.lan.informatik.tu-muenchen.dbp.de> <524@crdos1.crd.ge.COM> <514.nlhp3@oracle.nl>
Reply-To: gwyn@brl.arpa (Doug Gwyn)
Organization: Ballistic Research Lab (BRL), APG, MD.
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In article <514.nlhp3@oracle.nl> bengsig@oracle.nl (Bjorn Engsig) writes:
>Does the pANS say anything about linking programs compiled with
>different compilers, e.g. in the case above.  You might even not know
>which compiler was used to compile the libraries.

Of course not.  How could it?

I understand your concern, but it's not the C Standard's job to
address such issues.  Compiler vendors and the computer vendor
should address such system-specific issues.  For example, DEC
supposedly has a language interface standard for VAXes.