The notion that the Binder is a new, arcane and/or dubious piece of
technology is a curious one. It can pretend to be the Linkage Editor,
producing/outputting load modules; or, again, it can instead produce 'new
fangled' program objects.
Moreover, no effort to avoid putting load modules and/or program objects
into either linkage-editor or binder inputs should ever be made. Both
process their outputs as inputs much more efficiently than they process
input object modules, either traditional or GOFF ones. (This is why
traditional compiler libraries contained not object modules but NCAL load
modules.)
John Gilmore
Ashland, MA 01721-1817
USA
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