Re: question about linker

On 13.12.2024 17:29, David Brown wrote:

On 13/12/2024 15:20, Waldek Hebisch wrote:

[...]

Since all I wanted is to know where you got your impression from,
Waldek, my question is (yet) fully answered. - Thanks.

I'm also glad that David had already thoroughly replied to your
post and I'm alleviated from that burden. As got obvious he read
(and interpreted) the quoted statement in exactly the same way as
I did. - Thanks as well.

[...]
 
(As an aside, who would ever compile gawk, other than the developers and
people building *nix distributions - who would all be using gcc or clang
for the job?  [...]

I'm a bit puzzled about that statement. - I certainly compile the
GNU Awk source from the tar-file whenever I get my hands on a new
version (including beta-test versions).

I haven't looked into the package makefile but I suppose it will
use the "cc" that is standard on my system (which is a 'gcc').

(It requires literally not more than a nett minute (to download &
unpack & configure & make & install) on my old and rusty Linux box.)

Janis