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I have been programming in c for about a year or so now on various 
platforms and I often find myself wondering why standard C has
no mechanisms for embedding the libraries required for loading
into the code.  Right now I have to specify them on the command
line of the compiler call.  Of course, using make files can
simplify the process, but why not just have a line in the 
main program such as

#library "/lib/libc.a"

which would then alert the linker that that library will be 
required.  DIGITAL supplies macro assembly programmers with
this capibility (.library directive), but they recommend
against using it since it makes moving library files a problem
since all the source code would need to be updated.  Perhaps
C could avoid this problem by putting them in an include file.

It seems to me this would be a reasonable extension to C, since
just about every c program requires some type of library that's
not automagically provided.  Does this make sense to anyone 
else?  Would it not be a consideration for the language?

Ray
ray@astro.temple.edu