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[Peter da Silva]

Submitted-by: peter at ficc.ferranti.com (Peter da Silva)

In article <1991Jun15.175831.6319 at uunet.uu.net> sef at kithrup.COM (Sean Eric Fagan) writes:
> have all "illegal" symbols be "safe" (__select, for example).  All library
> routines are written to use the __ names; then, you have the linker accept
> an option that tells it to try to ignore the leading __ if there are
> unresolved externals.

You could implement this simply by having the library contain duplicate
symbol table entries for __x and x, with the same offset. You could
handle it in a separate pass after compilation before creating the
library. No extra work should be needed in the librarian, compiler, or
linker!
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