COMMONS in C

[Michael Meissner]

In article <1990Mar21.031726.18192 at bpdsun1.uucp> dwg at bpdsun1.uucp
(David W. Glessner) writes:

| In article <1990Mar19.213645.1962 at utzoo.uucp> henry at utzoo.uucp (Henry Spencer) writes:
|                               in structures
| >Both K&R1 and ANSI C say the order ^ must be preserved.
| 
| Are any guarantees made about the order (i.e. addresses) of external
| variables?

Nope.  The Data General MV linker sorts global variables by alignment,
so that the items with the largest alignment come first (the C
compiler also sorts static data by alignment and size).  The VMS
linker sorts global variables alphabetically.  The System V.3 linker
allows the use of a runtime script to determine where things go.
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Michael Meissner	email: meissner at osf.org		phone: 617-621-8861
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