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From: Keith Thompson <kst-u@mib.org>
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Subject: Re: Sequence points and commit to memory
Date: Fri, 15 May 2015 10:35:24 -0700
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ram@zedat.fu-berlin.de (Stefan Ram) writes:
> David Kleinecke <dkleinecke@gmail.com> writes:
>>This the same problem I just had with gcc. That is - what, exactly, is the
>>compiler? A modern C "compiler" pipes a C source file through  
>
>       "3.12
>
>       1 implementation
>
>       particular set of software, running in a particular
>       translation environment under particular control
>       options, that performs translation of programs for, and
>       supports execution of functions in, a particular
>       execution environment"

A "compiler" is only part of an "implementation".  The exact meaning of
"compiler" is unclear, but I think there's general agreement that the
linker and runtime library are not part of it.

I might *informally* refer to the process of generating an executable
from a source file as "compiling", but strictly speaking it's compiling
and linking; `gcc -c foo.c` compiles, whereas `gcc foo.c -o foo`
compiles and links.

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