Re: else ladders practice

Bart <bc@freeuk.com> writes:

On 25/11/2024 11:21, Waldek Hebisch wrote:

Bart <bc@freeuk.com> wrote:

This seems to be a thing with Linux, where a big chunk of a C
implementation is provided by the OS.
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That is, standard headers, libraries, possibly even 'as' and 'ld'
utilities. On Windows, C compilers tend to be self-contained (except for
Clang which appears to be parasitical: it used to piggy-back onto gcc,
then it switched to MSVC).

You know that at source level there are separate projects: gcc
proper, binutils and libc.

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Actually, no I don't. I said more on this in my reply to Keith a short
while ago.

You don't know that after it's been explained to you dozens of times?

My experience of C compilers on Windows is that they provide a means
to turn .c files into executable files. Such a compiler on Windows
generally has to be self-contained, since very little is provided by
the OS.

Bart, can you explain the difference between a C compiler and a C
implementation?  Or do you believe they're the same thing?  (Hint:
They're not.)

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So from my point of view, gcc is the outlier.

And what's wrong with that?

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