Path: ...!eternal-september.org!feeder3.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Lawrence D'Oliveiro Newsgroups: comp.lang.c Subject: Re: C23 thoughts and opinions Date: Sun, 2 Jun 2024 03:27:20 -0000 (UTC) Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Lines: 9 Message-ID: References: <00297443-2fee-48d4-81a0-9ff6ae6481e4@gmail.com> <87msoh5uh6.fsf@nosuchdomain.example.com> <87y18047jk.fsf@nosuchdomain.example.com> <87msoe1xxo.fsf@nosuchdomain.example.com> <87ikz11osy.fsf@nosuchdomain.example.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Injection-Date: Sun, 02 Jun 2024 05:27:21 +0200 (CEST) Injection-Info: dont-email.me; posting-host="af5b283064d4258912cb1541ae2b6f8a"; logging-data="3366081"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX18VxksVzsEFYsy0I0LkSyXN" User-Agent: Pan/0.158 (Avdiivka; ) Cancel-Lock: sha1:oyOY+aPR0DzEtToBrHohstluu48= Bytes: 2101 On Sat, 1 Jun 2024 11:37:45 +0100, bart wrote: > My compilers don't routinely generate object files, which would also > need an external dependency (a linker), but they can do if necessary > (eg. to statically link my code into another program with another > compiler). Modular code design would indicate that there is no point the compiler duplicating functionality available in the linker.