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copied!<p>This is a serious design bug in gcc/ld, it does not occur using MSVC. It won't happen linking programs, only shared libraries. When you link a program, the linker ensures all external references are satisfied, at least at link time. When you link a shared library it does not. Instead, external references for which there are no definitions are just left to dangle, the argument (given in ld man page) being that the symbol has to be resolved at load-time dynamically anyhow, so there's no point checking it. It's also hard if you use the stupid feature of shared libraries grabbing symbols from executables.</p> <p>Your program will not misbehave. If you specify that symbols in a library must be satisfied on loading, you will get a load-time error, if you specify lazy linkage, the error will still occur, but only on the first use of the symbol (AFAIK!)</p> <p>Some older OS, I believe BSD for example, allowed unsatisfied external pointers to be left as NULL so that you could write an "in program" check to see if the symbol was linked or not. Linux ld at least does not support this AFAIK.</p> <p>There is a linker switch to force satisfaction of external references for shared libraries, but it is hard to use correctly in portable builds because it requires you to explicitly link the startup library for your processor.</p> <p>I consider this a very serious design bug, and tried to file a bug report. In my own product we were happy to be able to build under Cygwin because underneath it uses MSVC linker which does not permit this behaviour, quite a lot of bugs were found in my code this way.</p>

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