Date: Tue, 21 Apr 1998 13:44:20 +0300 (IDT)
From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>
To: Nate Eldredge <nate AT cartsys DOT com>
cc: Charles Terry <cterry AT plinet DOT com>, djgpp AT delorie DOT com
Subject: Re: Unresolved externals
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On Mon, 20 Apr 1998, Nate Eldredge wrote:

> At 08:21  4/19/1998 -0700, Charles Terry wrote:
> 
> >BTW I don't think I could run the program as the linker 
> >reported the unresolve linkage as an error, not a warning.
> >Is that right?
> 
> Yes, that's right

Did anybody actually try this?  I think that if the linker reports 
unresolved externals, it leaves them zeroed.  So, if the execution 
thread never gets there, the program will run just fine (if it does get 
there, it will crash).