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- Newsgroups: comp.std.c
- Path: sparky!uunet!taumet!steve
- From: steve@taumet.com (Steve Clamage)
- Subject: Re: Libraries specified in source?
- Message-ID: <1993Jan22.201020.13541@taumet.com>
- Organization: TauMetric Corporation
- References: <1993Jan21.182949.29796@cronkite.ocis.temple.edu>
- Date: Fri, 22 Jan 1993 20:10:20 GMT
- Lines: 28
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- ray@astro.ocis.temple.edu (Ray Lauff) writes:
-
- >... but why not just have a line in the main program such as
-
- >#library "/lib/libc.a"
-
- >which would then alert the linker that that library will be
- >required. ...
-
- >It seems to me this would be a reasonable extension to C, since
- >just about every c program requires some type of library that's
- >not automagically provided. Does this make sense to anyone
- >else? Would it not be a consideration for the language?
-
- If you mean to propose adding this to the Standard, I doubt it would
- happen. This assumes that implementations use a linker and libraries,
- neither of which is required.
-
- The C Standard specifies what constitues a legal program and the
- meaning of legal programs.
-
- There has to be some way to get from source code to an execution
- of the program, and the implementation has to tell you how to do that.
- Whether there is a compiler or a linker or libraries involved is a
- subject separate from the C language.
- --
-
- Steve Clamage, TauMetric Corp, steve@taumet.com
-