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From: ron@topaz.rutgers.edu (Ron Natalie)
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Subject: Re: MAJOR ANSI C FLAW (my opinion, of course)
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Date: Wed, 21-Oct-87 08:22:09 EDT
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Are links all that complex?

Yes!  C'mon.  For most real applications, you would like the C
suite on a machine to be compatible with the non-C parts of the
system.  This means that you can use all the nice debuggers
and other system features that may be provided.

Of course, there are a few machines where the linker environment
is awful.  Cray COS for example.  SEGLDR is garbage.  It doesn't
even know libraries.  An example of a good loader is VMS.  The VMS
C compiler would be no fun at all if it didn't work with their
splendid library facility (I don't know if it does or not, I hate
VMS).

-Ron