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From: jsdy@hadron.UUCP (Joseph S. D. Yao)
Newsgroups: net.lang.c
Subject: Re: ld - the link editor
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Date: Thu, 9-Jan-86 09:42:16 EST
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Posted: Thu Jan  9 09:42:16 1986
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Summary: systems programming, stand-alone, etc.

The link editor is a much more versatile program than most people
give it credit for or even (including me) can understand.  Many of
its features are for curious systems-programming use, like providing
non-standard entry points for stand-alone programs, or curdling
memory models on odd machines.  If its use were only for linking
C applications programs, we would make the options the C compiler
uses standard, and then not have any more, no?
-- 

	Joe Yao		hadron!jsdy@seismo.{CSS.GOV,ARPA,UUCP}