"Numerical Recipes in C" is nonport

[Rahul Dhesi]

In article <8507 at smoke.ARPA> gwyn at brl.arpa (Doug Gwyn (VLD/VMB) <gwyn>) writes:
>C extern names are not necessarily unique beyond 6 characters,...
>But the fact is, many C
>implementors are not in a position to improve the linker that
>will of necessity be used with the object code their compiler
>generates.

(This is not meant to be a flame, just a comment.)

I think Doug Gwyn exaggerates in saying "many" and "of necessity".
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