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From: "Juan Céspedes" <cespedes@lsub.org>
To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@9fans.net>
Subject: Re: [9fans] 8c, 8l, and empty files
Date: Wed,  4 Mar 2009 16:54:35 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <68ac7f3d0903040754h47e290b4xc38121f3a5d44651@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <509071940903031543u66cbfc7bw8521ff7968c1fe07@mail.gmail.com>

On Wed, Mar 4, 2009 at 12:43 AM, Anthony Sorace <anothy@gmail.com> wrote:
> i could see this going either way, but from my perspective the linker
> did what you told it.

The linker has NOT done what it is supposed to do.  From the man page:

> These commands load the named files into executable files
> for the corresponding architectures

And, in this case, it has not produced an executable file.

Furthermore, 8l should give an error when there is no function main().
 In fact, it shows that error unless there is no function at all in
any .8 input file.

--
Juan Cespedes



  parent reply	other threads:[~2009-03-04 15:54 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-03-03 20:03 Enrique Soriano
2009-03-03 22:54 ` andrey mirtchovski
2009-03-03 23:29   ` Enrique Soriano
2009-03-03 23:37     ` andrey mirtchovski
2009-03-03 23:41       ` J.R. Mauro
2009-03-03 23:45         ` andrey mirtchovski
2009-03-03 23:57           ` Uriel
2009-03-03 23:43     ` Anthony Sorace
2009-03-03 23:52       ` andrey mirtchovski
2009-03-04 11:56         ` Enrique Soriano
2009-03-04 15:54       ` Juan Céspedes [this message]
2009-03-04 12:25     ` Charles Forsyth
2009-03-04  2:16 ` Federico G. Benavento

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