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From: gwyn@smoke.ARPA (Doug Gwyn )
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: "Numerical Recipes in C" is nonport
Message-ID: <8511@smoke.ARPA>
Date: 16 Sep 88 20:02:50 GMT
References: <5162@hoptoad.uucp> <225800069@uxe.cso.uiuc.edu> <8507@smoke.ARPA> <3981@bsu-cs.UUCP>
Reply-To: gwyn@brl.arpa (Doug Gwyn (VLD/VMB) <gwyn>)
Organization: Ballistic Research Lab (BRL), APG, MD.
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In article <3981@bsu-cs.UUCP> dhesi@bsu-cs.UUCP (Rahul Dhesi) writes:
->But the fact is, many C
->implementors are not in a position to improve the linker that
->will of necessity be used with the object code their compiler
->generates.
-I think Doug Gwyn exaggerates in saying "many" and "of necessity".

No.  (Sometimes I wonder why I waste my breath, er, fingers.)