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From: "Graeme Evans" <graemeevans@btinternet.com>
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Subject: Re: Why won't this link?
Date: Thu, 1 Mar 2001 22:28:05 -0000
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Hello. I think i know the answer to this question.

A lot of features of gnu c++ rely on a 'support' library called libgcc2,
which isn't compiled into the standard yaroze library. Gil Jaysmith of SN
systems compiled quite a lot of it into libsngcc.a. Except libsngcc.a wasnt
really meant for the yaroze, it was meant for the pro developers, and they
have a function called _exit(). I have no idea what this does

To get your program to compile, try giving it a function _exit() and see
what happens. It better be a 'C' function to avoid 'name mangling'. make a
file exit.c

void _exit(void)
{
}

compile -c and link it in. I never found this problem because I always
linked in ctors.cpp (ctors.txt in ~frothy/ftp) and this took precedence over
the version in libsngcc.a which calls _exit. Your way is better though. Also
i never used pure virtual functions at the time, but i think they work with
the above fix. These are the only two modules in libsngcc.a that call _exit.

Hey im a bit worried about your main() though. You are calling new (which
calls malloc) before you've initialised the heap with InitHeap(), so i have
no idea where you're creating your Object. Best to call InitHeap before you
do anything else.

best wishes

graeme