Re: C23 thoughts and opinions

On 05/06/2024 02:50, Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote:

On Tue, 4 Jun 2024 12:35:43 +0100, bart wrote:
 

It is utterly different from the linkers used with typical C code.

 It does symbol resolution, just like any linker. It handles dependencies
(both direct and transitive), just like any linker.

In that case I've written dozens of linkers across 40 years.
Any language that has 'module' objects, even within the same source file, is a linker. Any whole-program compiler, even if its output is IR or assembly, is a linker. Any smart code editor could be a linker.
The term usually refers to a program that takes independently compiled binaries containing native code, and produces a monolithic binary executable.