To: "B.S.Runnacles" <B DOT S DOT Runnacles AT soton DOT ac DOT uk>
Cc: djgpp AT sun DOT soe DOT clarkson DOT edu
Subject: Re: Problem with linking?? 
Date: Tue, 14 Feb 95 17:25:05 +0200
From: "Eli Zaretskii" <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>

> roundy type of thing, called ScreenUpdate().  I thought I had removed all 
> references, and had certainly removed to source code, but due to my rather
> lapse version management some still crept through.  The files containing 
> the spurious references compiled fine (ScreenUpdate() was declared as
> external) and also linked without any complaint.  Upon executing the code
> it obviously jumped to some weird address and proceeded to s**t all over the

If you call the missing function directly, then the linker
should have complained.  If you call it through a pointer
assigned at run-time, then the linker might not know this.