Phlip opined:
Richard Heathfield wrote:
The advantage of letting the linker do the job is that the code is
not rendered less portable by the introduction into it of a
non-standard function.
What a useless sophistry. Nobody has the burden of writing all their
C++ code to be topical to this newsgroup.
What a useless comment in comp.lang.c (although I suspect in ++, too)!
And, pray tell, why did you feel the need to set followups to c.l.c?
Followups re-set to comp.lang.c++
The advantage of using your OS's dynamic linker is simply more
support at failure time, and less fragile code.
I guess this would be OT in both...
--
if (argc > 1 && strcmp(argv[1], "-advice") == 0) {
printf("Don't Panic!\n");
exit(42);
}
(Arnold Robbins in the LJ of February '95, describing RCS)
<http://clc-wiki.net/wiki/Introduction_to_comp.lang.c>