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Date: Sun, 14 Nov 2010 08:24:58 -0800
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From: ron minnich <rminnich@gmail.com>
To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@9fans.net>
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Subject: Re: [9fans] Plan9 development
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On Sun, Nov 14, 2010 at 7:56 AM, Jacob Todd <jaketodd422@gmail.com> wrote:
> The full standard c library isn't included in a statically linked
> executable. Only what's needed is, at least on plan 9, i have no idea what
> gcc does.

To emphasize this comment: Plan 9 has always done the equivalent of
what gcc recently got; only the code you use is bound in. The plan 9
linkers do the equivalent of the segment garbage collection that went
into gld a while back. And there's no need to tell the Plan 9 C
compiler to put everything in its own section so it can be
garbage-collected by the linker.

ron