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ray@astro.ocis.temple.edu (Ray Lauff) writes:

>... 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.  ...

>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?

If you mean to propose adding this to the Standard, I doubt it would
happen.  This assumes that implementations use a linker and libraries,
neither of which is required.

The C Standard specifies what constitues a legal program and the
meaning of legal programs.

There has to be some way to get from source code to an execution
of the program, and the implementation has to tell you how to do that.
Whether there is a compiler or a linker or libraries involved is a
subject separate from the C language.
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Steve Clamage, TauMetric Corp, steve@taumet.com