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Re: Evolution of ELF symbol management

On 11/22/2016 04:29 PM, Andreas Schwab wrote:

On Nov 22 2016, Florian Weimer <fweimer@redhat.com> wrote:


There also configure scripts which do

extern char whatever();
main () { whatever(); }

for link testing, without including the appropriate header (perhaps
deliberately).  That could be considered broken.  I'm not sure.


While getting the return type wrong makes it slightly broken, the C
standard does support declaring standard functions on your own, as long
as you don't need special types.


Yes, that's true.  Thanks for the reminder.

Florian
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