Re: How do linkers work?

jacob navia said:

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[Herbert Rosenau] said yesterday that C "doesn't need a CPU"...

I see now that for posting in usenet a brain is not necessary
either.

Well, that has been clear for quite some time. Nevertheless, it is
certainly the case that it is possible to write, and indeed to read, C
programs without a CPU. C programs can be written, and read, on paper. To
demonstrate this, I invite you to turn to K&R2, page 8, where you will
find a short C program. I don't think you will have any difficulty in
following the program logic in your head - no CPU required.

Yes, *of course* a CPU is what brings a C program alive, and allows us to
do astounding things in vanishingly small amounts of time - but the
language nevertheless does have an existence that is independent of CPUs.
Were that not true, we would not be able to make any sense of other
people's C programs, let alone write our own.

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