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From: "Chris M. Thomasson" <chris.m.thomasson.1@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: C23 thoughts and opinions
Date: Fri, 7 Jun 2024 22:36:02 -0700
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On 6/7/2024 6:14 PM, bart wrote:
> On 08/06/2024 01:39, Kaz Kylheku wrote:
>> On 2024-06-07, bart <bc@freeuk.com> wrote:
>>> It's you who can't get your head around the idea that someone could be
>>> away with a 'linker'.
>>
>> You can do away with linkers and linking.
>>
>> But it's pretty helpful when
>>
>> 1. the same library is reused for many programs.
> 
> 
> You use a shared library.
> 
>> 2. you're selling a library, and would like to ship a binary image of
>> that library.
> 
> You ship a shared library.
> 
>> Without linkage, you don't have a library ecosystem.
> 
> 
> Of course you do. Eg. a program depends on the vast WinAPI; but you 
> don't have to ship copies of all its DLLs, neither do you have to 
> statically link them.
> 
> There are some fixups involving even with using dynamic linking. That's 

dynamic linking is linking?

> taken care of by the OS loader. But the code involved isn't extensive. 
> Here is an 800-line C program:
> 
>    https://github.com/sal55/langs/blob/master/runmx.c
> 
> that loads a private executable format of mine; it loads any dynamic 
> libraries also in the same format (but it doesn't multiple instances 
> with other processes); and it resolves any symbols from dependent DLLs. 
> Then it runs the program.
> 
> (Here written using WinAPI calls.)