Re: else ladders practice

On 25/11/2024 17:30, Scott Lurndal wrote:

Bart <bc@freeuk.com> writes:

On 24/11/2024 21:45, Keith Thompson wrote:

 

A more useful installation would of course need more standard headers,
an assembler, linker, and whatever .a files are needed to provide the
standard library.

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Sure, those are all part of a C implementation, though they're not part
of gcc.

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This seems to be a thing with Linux, where a big chunk of a C
implementation is provided by the OS.

 Actually, no.  The OS provides the dynamic linker and some os-specific
header files.   Pretty much everything else comes from various
third-party packages.
 

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That is, standard headers, libraries, possibly even 'as' and 'ld'
utilities.

 None of those come from the OS.

So, if I install 5 distinct C compilers on Linux, will they each come with their own stdio.h, or will they use the common one in /usr/include?