Re: Problem with find_name

From: George Greer (greerga@circlemud.org)
Date: 07/02/02


On Tue, 2 Jul 2002, Gerald Florence wrote:

>I've been going through the Circle 3.0 bpl 21 and I keep coming across the
>find_name not linked in error in MSVC++.  I did a search in every version
>of the circle, thinking that somehow, either I made a mistake and deleted
>it out or it was just plain missing.  I have every version since 17,
>including 17.  I went out to the linux box I had and compiled a version
>that the find_name function missing and it compiled straight through.

find_name() duplicated another function so it was removed.

-- gg - interpreter.c: find_name() and get_ptable_by_name() did the
                same thing.  Delete find_name() as it doesn't relate
                to other functions as much.
                From: Juliano Ravasi Ferraz <jferraz@linkway.com.br>

>I did find it interesting that interpreter.c, db.c, and mail.c, all refer
>to the external function find_name, but not one file implemented it. VC++
>complained but GCC did not.

You must not really have bpl20 or bpl21.  They don't have any references to
it.

--
George Greer
greerga@circlemud.org

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