Re: Python recompile

On Mon, 3 Mar 2025 10:22:10 -0500
James Kuyper <jameskuyper@alumni.caltech.edu> wibbled:

On 03/03/2025 08:13, Muttley@DastardlyHQ.org wrote:

Without compilers and linkers a C program would just be a load of text.

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Without computers, keyboards and monitors most C programs wouldn't be
much use, either. That doesn't make a malfunctioning computer monitor a
C problem. And it doesn't make a linkage problems a C problem either.

Your reducto ad absurdum analogy is just that - absurd.

Failure to link object files created by a C compiler is very much a C problem
eg in some cases though maybe not this it may be down to missing "extern"
keywords in certain C source files. Either way it means the compiler has
not created the correct object files from the source.

Unless you're going to claim that C programming ends at the editor and
compilation has nothing to do with it.

If it were a C problem, then the C source code that produced the problem
should have been shown. It's hard to debug code that you can't see.

In other news - the lack of electrons in the battery of a car thats failing to
start are nothing to do with the car and hence not a maintenance issue.