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<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" standalone="no"?> <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"><html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8" /><title>Keep in Mind</title><link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="userguide.css" /><meta name="generator" content="DocBook XSL Stylesheets Vsnapshot" /><link rel="home" href="index.html" title="FreeTDS User Guide" /><link rel="up" href="rtl.html" title="Appendix A. On Linkers" /><link rel="prev" href="linker.how.html" title="How Dost Thy Linker Link?" /><link rel="next" href="interfacesfile.html" title="Appendix B. The interfaces File" /></head><body><div class="navheader"><table width="100%" summary="Navigation header"><tr><th colspan="3" align="center">Keep in Mind</th></tr><tr><td width="20%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="linker.how.html">Prev</a> </td><th width="60%" align="center">Appendix A. On Linkers</th><td width="20%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="interfacesfile.html">Next</a></td></tr></table><hr /></div><div class="section"><div class="titlepage"><div><div><h2 class="title" style="clear: both"><a id="linker.conclusion"></a>Keep in Mind</h2></div></div></div><p>The compiler's job ends on the last line of each source code file. A header file describes a function <span class="emphasis"><em>for the compiler</em></span>, not the linker. </p><p>The linker, static or runtime, uses only the function's name to resolve references. Function parameters and semantics are invisible to it. </p><p>The programmer and, to a lesser degree, the sysadmin direct the choice of which library to link to an executable. A missing function will prevent execution. A wrong function will promote wrong execution. Don't do that. </p></div><div class="navfooter"><hr /><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="linker.how.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="rtl.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="interfacesfile.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">How Dost Thy Linker Link? </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> Appendix B. The <code class="filename">interfaces</code> File</td></tr></table></div></body></html>