linker wrapper

Walter Bright newshound2 at digitalmars.com
Thu Nov 11 17:03:21 PST 2010


bearophile wrote:
> What the linker is doing is something that conceptually is not complex, so an
> average programmer is supposed to understand what are the problems a linker
> may encounter in its work.

The linker is a conceptually *trivial* program. It baffles me why programmers 
with 10+ years of experience in C and C++ are stumped by "undefined symbol" 
messages, cannot look at a linker map file, etc.

It's like being a C programmer and not knowing what a pointer is.


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