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From: decot@hpisod2.HP.COM (Dave Decot)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: What real non-UNIX 'C' compilers implement...
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Date: Sun, 11-Oct-87 00:26:13 EDT
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Posted: Sun Oct 11 00:26:13 1987
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A distinction that WOULD be useful is the following:

    OS: routines that are part of the kernel; your executable file
	does not contain them.

    LIB: routines that are linked into your executable file.

This distinction would be useful for migrating exectuables between
systems that had a common instruction set, system call mechanism, and
object file format.  An example of this situation would be a system
that ran executables linked elsewhere, but did not itself provide a
linker or libraries.

Dave Decot
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