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[Doug Gwyn]

Submitted-by: gwyn at smoke.brl.mil (Doug Gwyn)

>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.

Actually you don't need to hack the linker; you could supply a batch of
glue routines in the library like this:

	* select -- system call interface for use by applications
	*		(C library must invoke __select instead of select)
		global	__select
		entry	select
	select	jmp	__select

That way both applications that supply their own select() and those that
expect select() to be linked from the system library are happy.

The only reasons I can think of for hacking the linker instead are
	(a) debugging looks neater
	(b) a tiny amount of time is saved by not branching
	(c) C library maintenance is slightly easier


[ This covers functions, but not data.  Such as _iob -- mod ]

Volume-Number: Volume 24, Number 10