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From: smryan@garth.UUCP (Steven Ryan)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: "Numerical Recipes in C" is nonport
Message-ID: <1454@garth.UUCP>
Date: 22 Sep 88 21:46:54 GMT
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>The Compilers work, but there is not much we can do about the linker (part 
>of the operating system, you see; generally, you build a ".o" equivilent, 
>then, when you try to run it, the OS recognizes that it is non-linked and 
>then proceeds to link it).

Which is nice. 170 Loader runs like a bat out of hell because it has to.
ld runs like a turtle out of antartica.