From: jstacey AT plato DOT wadham DOT ox DOT ac DOT uk (J-P)
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Subject: Re: Linking in .a files from within RHIDE
Date: 7 Apr 2000 16:17:58 +0100
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In article <8ckqp6$c5l$1 AT nets3 DOT rz DOT RWTH-Aachen DOT DE>,
Hans-Bernhard Broeker  <broeker AT physik DOT rwth-aachen DOT de> wrote:
>Removing libc altogether will break even programs that don't use any
>of the functions defined only by POSIX. 'printf()' is also in libc,
>see?

Ah. Oops. I don't know where *I* thought printf() would be. Ignore me,
please. :)

>A rather stupid complaint that is, IMHO.

Kind of. You see, a lot of what we do is sufficiently experimental (for
which read hacky) that we need to compile reasonably often. Compile time
becomes an important issue at that point. Running speed less so.

J-P
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