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
prog2.cpp:
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$1@digitaldaemon.com...
> Can someone tell me why the linker spews out lots of rubbish when it
> encounters an undefined symbol.
> Such as that below:
> I know it can't resolve the call to the function get_alpha_words(), but
why
> all the odd looking characters ??
>
> > dmc prog2 get_alpha_words2 && prog2 < text
> prog2.cpp:
> get_alpha_words2.cpp:
> link prog2+get_alpha_words2,,,user32+kernel32/noi;
> OPTLINK (R) for Win32  Release 7.50B1
> Copyright (C) Digital Mars 1989 - 2001  All Rights Reserved
>
> prog2.obj(prog2)
>  Error 42: Symbol Undefined
>
??$get_alpha_words2@V?$back_insert±tÚator@stdÇä£vecÇïÄbasic_stringÇàöDÇâòcha
> r_traitsÇåö@1Çä¼ allocÇë?ÇäòÇöÿÇ?iÝÇàÆÚ@YAXAAÇëÎiÇâÏeamÇØÏÇå?è?ë2ÐZ
>
> --- errorlevel 1
>
>