Null references (oh no, not again!)

Walter Bright newshound1 at digitalmars.com
Wed Mar 4 21:07:03 PST 2009


Andrei Alexandrescu wrote:
> Walter Bright wrote:
>> Yeah, well, I still get regular emails (for the last 20 years at 
>> least) from the gamut of professional programmers at all levels of 
>> expertise who do not understand what "undefined symbol" from the 
>> linker means. It happens so often I am forced to consider the idea 
>> that the defect lies with me <g>.
>>
>> If I could figure a way to design *that* out of a linker, I would.
> 
> It's easy. Demangle the name of the symbol that you print an error 
> about. I swear that that is the entire problem, right there.

No, the same thing happens with C. It still happened when there was a 
name demangler in the linker.



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