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A standard library is not the same as a runtime. A library you explicitly call out to, and if you do not call it you can avoid linking the library at all. A r
by haberman 13y ago
A standard library is not the same as a runtime. A library you explicitly call out to, and if you do not call it you can avoid linking the library at all. A runtime inserts calls to itself in a way that cannot be reasonably avoided, and must therefore be linked/loaded by every program.