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Re: Linker question

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From: George J. Carrette
Date: Tue, 27 Oct 1992 10:04
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> In article <1992Oct19.233547.1536@samba.oit.unc.edu>, pwhite@pyrite.chem.unc.edu (Peter S. White) writes:
>> I have a large body of code that we recently modified by liberally
>> spreading calls to a routine called FWRITE.  This weekend I moved
>> the new version to our VAX and had no problems until I included the
>> X windows calls to the graphics programs.  Seems the VMS version of
>> Xlib, decw$xlibshr.exe has a symbol 'FWRITE' and the linker not only
>> tells me about this but seems to insist on resolving all my calls
>> to FWRITE to this entry point.

If it is C language code I recommend putting something like this
in the proper include file:

#define FWRITE MY_FWRITE
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Message-ID: <3282@mitech.com>
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References: <1992Oct19.233547.1536@samba.oit.unc.edu> <1992Oct21.124405.148@ipact.com>

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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!sparky!uunet!mitech!gjc
From: gjc@mitech.com (George J. Carrette)
Newsgroups: vmsnet.misc
Subject: Re: Linker question
Message-ID: <3282@mitech.com>
Date: 27 Oct 92 10:04:30 GMT
References: <1992Oct19.233547.1536@samba.oit.unc.edu> <1992Oct21.124405.148@ipact.com>
Organization: Mitech Corporation, Concord MA
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