C linkage query

[Andrew Koenig]

In article <186 at cbnewsd.ATT.COM>, tainter at cbnewsd.ATT.COM (johnathan.tainter) writes:
> In article <1795 at auspex.auspex.com> guy at auspex.auspex.com (Guy Harris) writes:
> >I.e., if you compile a file containing
> >	extern int foo;
> >	main() {}
> >and link that *with no other object files and with no libraries that
> >define "foo"*, will the link fail?

I recently asked a similar question.

I have since learned that this is explicitly legal in ANSI C.
The only compilers people have mentioned that DON'T handle
it correctly are on desktop micros of various sorts.
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