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From: Terry Lambert <tlambert2@mindspring.com>
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Dag-Erling Smorgrav wrote:
> "Andrey A. Chernov" <ache@nagual.pp.ru> writes:
> > There is no problem. Each *.h function prototype can be accompanied with
> > some assembler instruction making it strong reference. The same thing can
> > be conditionalized at the header level using _POSIX_SOURCE or other
> > defines. So, linker will know, what headers are included.
> 
> I would like to draw your attention to points b) and c) above and ask
> how you plan to address them.

Forget that, I want to see his "make it a strong reference in
the header file for multiple object files in the same binary"-foo!

-- Terry