From: utzoo!decvax!harpo!floyd!trb
Newsgroups: net.unix-wizards
Title: Re: C extensions
Article-I.D.: floyd.715
Posted: Fri Oct 22 10:09:59 1982
Received: Sat Oct 23 01:51:59 1982
References: sri-unix.3958

Someone asked for C extension suggestions...
How about a # directive to tell the loader that some object should
be included (or object library be searched)?

#search <libm.a>
...
	sin(x);

Analogous to the #include feature, but #include is necessary because
you need the exact positioning, whereas #search would just be a loader
directive.  I guess I have an unhealthy aversion to the -l's on the cc
command line.  Please don't provoke me.

DEC TOPS-10 MACRO-10 had such a feature, and I remember it being useful.

	Andy Tannenbaum   Bell Labs  Whippany, NJ   (201) 386-6491