• "jim p" <x y.com> Jul 18 2003
• "Walter" <walter digitalmars.com> Jul 18 2003

Can someone tell me why the linker spews out lots of rubbish when it
encounters an undefined symbol.
Such as that below:
I know it can't resolve the call to the function get_alpha_words(), but why
all the odd looking characters ??

 dmc prog2 get_alpha_words2 && prog2 < text


get_alpha_words2.cpp:
link prog2+get_alpha_words2,,,user32+kernel32/noi;
OPTLINK (R) for Win32  Release 7.50B1
Copyright (C) Digital Mars 1989 - 2001  All Rights Reserved

prog2.obj(prog2)
 Error 42: Symbol Undefined
??$get_alpha_words2 V?$back_insert±tÚator stdÇä£vecÇïÄbasic_stringÇàöDÇâòcha
r_traitsÇåö 1Çä¼
allocÇë?ÇäòÇöÿÇ?iÝÇàÆÚ YAXAAÇëÎiÇâÏeamÇØÏÇå?è?ë2ÐZ

--- errorlevel 1

That's the "mangled" name needed for typesafe linking.

"jim p" <x y.com> wrote in message news:bf8ons$1ovq$1 digitaldaemon.com...
 Can someone tell me why the linker spews out lots of rubbish when it
 encounters an undefined symbol.
 Such as that below:
 I know it can't resolve the call to the function get_alpha_words(), but


 all the odd looking characters ??

 dmc prog2 get_alpha_words2 && prog2 < text


 get_alpha_words2.cpp:
 link prog2+get_alpha_words2,,,user32+kernel32/noi;
 OPTLINK (R) for Win32  Release 7.50B1
 Copyright (C) Digital Mars 1989 - 2001  All Rights Reserved

 prog2.obj(prog2)
  Error 42: Symbol Undefined


 r_traitsÇåö 1Çä¼
 allocÇë?ÇäòÇöÿÇ?iÝÇàÆÚ YAXAAÇëÎiÇâÏeamÇØÏÇå?è?ë2ÐZ

 --- errorlevel 1