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/EXTDICTIONARY, /NOEXTDICTIONARY

Use /EXTDICTIONARY to have the linker search the extended dictionaries of libraries when it resolves external references. The extended dictionary is a list of module relationships within a library. When the linker pulls in a module from the library, it checks the extended dictionary to see whether that module requires other modules in the library, and then pulls in the additional modules automatically.

/EXTDICTIONARY option syntax
Read syntax diagramSkip visual syntax diagram   .-/EXTDICTIONARY---.  
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   '-/NOEXTDICTIONARY-'  
 

Default is: /EXTDICTIONARY

Abbreviations are: /EXT|/NOE

The linker searches the extended dictionary by default, to speed up the linking process.

Use /NOEXTDICTIONARY to override a definition in a library and replace it with a definition of your own.

If the same symbol is defined in two different places, the linker issues an error. When you link with /NOEXTDICTIONARY, the linker searches the dictionary directly instead of searching the extended dictionary. This results in slower linking, because references must be resolved individually.


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