Re: C23 thoughts and opinions

On 2024-06-07, bart <bc@freeuk.com> wrote:

It's you who can't get your head around the idea that someone could be
away with a 'linker'.

You can do away with linkers and linking.

But it's pretty helpful when

1. the same library is reused for many programs.

2. you're selling a library, and would like to ship a binary image of
that library.

Without linkage, you don't have a library ecosystem.

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