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From: Keith Thompson <Keith.S.Thompson+u@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: else ladders practice
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Bart <bc@freeuk.com> writes:
> On 25/11/2024 11:21, Waldek Hebisch wrote:
>> Bart <bc@freeuk.com> wrote:
>>> This seems to be a thing with Linux, where a big chunk of a C
>>> implementation is provided by the OS.
>>>
>>> That is, standard headers, libraries, possibly even 'as' and 'ld'
>>> utilities. On Windows, C compilers tend to be self-contained (except for
>>> Clang which appears to be parasitical: it used to piggy-back onto gcc,
>>> then it switched to MSVC).
>> You know that at source level there are separate projects: gcc
>> proper, binutils and libc.
>
> Actually, no I don't. I said more on this in my reply to Keith a short
> while ago.

You don't know that after it's been explained to you dozens of times?

> My experience of C compilers on Windows is that they provide a means
> to turn .c files into executable files. Such a compiler on Windows
> generally has to be self-contained, since very little is provided by
> the OS.

Bart, can you explain the difference between a C compiler and a C
implementation?  Or do you believe they're the same thing?  (Hint:
They're not.)

[...]

> So from my point of view, gcc is the outlier.

And what's wrong with that?

[...]

-- 
Keith Thompson (The_Other_Keith) Keith.S.Thompson+u@gmail.com
void Void(void) { Void(); } /* The recursive call of the void */