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Date: Fri,  1 Apr 2005 23:06:14 -0500
From: Russ Cox <russcox@gmail.com>
To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@cse.psu.edu>
Subject: Re: [9fans] OT: programming style under Plan9??
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> I would make the remark that C doesn't have modules.  After
> compiling the code type information is lost and you can link
> to anything that will resolve a name.  For example I can treat
> the name qsort(3) as an array of integers.  The loader will resolve
> the name qsort and the code in main will just do what I told it to.

now fixed on plan 9:

% cat x.c
#pragma lib "libc.a"

extern int qsort[];
extern int print(char*, ...);

void
main(void)
{
	int i;

	for(i=0; i<10; i++)
		print("%08ux\n", qsort[i]);
}
% 8c -T x.c
% 8l x.8
qsorts: incompatible type signatures b3a1d3d5(x.8) and
c7dcac09(/386/lib/libc.a(qsort)) for qsort
%