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Expand Up @@ -1957,8 +1957,10 @@ On an `extern` block, the following attributes are interpreted:
name and type. This is feature gated and the exact behavior is
implementation-defined (due to variety of linker invocation syntax).
- `link` - indicate that a native library should be linked to for the
declarations in this block to be linked correctly. See [external
blocks](#external-blocks)
declarations in this block to be linked correctly. `link` supports an optional `kind`
key with three possible values: `dylib`, `static`, and `framework`. See [external blocks](#external-blocks) for more about external blocks. Two
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It seems unfortunate to lose this link.

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Yeah, I guess I just assumed that since this entire section was about extern blocks, it seemed gratuituos

examples: `#[link(name = "readline")]` and
`#[link(name = "CoreFoundation", kind = "framework")]`.

On declarations inside an `extern` block, the following attributes are
interpreted:
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