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Article #3052Re: What is __acrtused?
From: Ralf.Brown
Date: Wed, 14 Nov 1990 10:25
Date: Wed, 14 Nov 1990 10:25
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In article <1990Nov13.164250.19569@geac.com>, huehn@geac.com (Robert Huehn) wrote:
}I've ran into this too, with MSC 5.1. It's a little annoying. If you take
}a look at the assembly file MSC generates, the first line in the externals
}list is:
}
}EXTRN __acrtused :ABS
}
}It isn't used in the rest of the listing either. So it seems that you could
}safely give the linker a bogus reference in your assembly code. It works
}for me.
My understanding is that the only thing this symbol does is force the C
startup code to be pulled in from the library. Turbo C requires that the
startup module be given explicitly on the linker command line, while MSC
includes the startup module in the library.
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!wuarchive!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!ub!uhura.cc.rochester.edu!rochester!pt.cs.cmu.edu!b.gp.cs.cmu.edu!Ralf.Brown@B.GP.CS.CMU.EDU From: Ralf.Brown@B.GP.CS.CMU.EDU Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.programmer Subject: Re: What is __acrtused? Message-ID: <274129c2@ralf> Date: 14 Nov 90 10:25:54 GMT Sender: ralf@b.gp.cs.cmu.edu Organization: Carnegie Mellon University School of Computer Science Lines: 20 In-Reply-To: <1990Nov13.164250.19569@geac.com>