Re: strange linking problem

Richard E Maine wrote: 
In article <D8ydneYJcsMupOzfRVn-qw@xxxxxxxxxxx>,
 glen herrmannsfeldt <gah@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

This can cause some interesting
effects if you accidentally (or not) name COMMON the same as a subroutine.

Been there. Was no fun. :-( Accidentally. 

I did see one once that coded the OS/360 system call to return
the time, along with appropriate initialization and return
instruction into an eight byte floating point constant.
It was then used to initialize a COMMON variable, and called
to return the time.  That is the only non-accidental
one I remember.

-- glen

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