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Date: | Sun, 25 Mar 2001 20:29:23 +0200 |
From: | "Eli Zaretskii" <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il> |
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To: | Hans-Bernhard Broeker <broeker AT physik DOT rwth-aachen DOT de> |
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Hans-Bernhard Broeker on 25 Mar 2001 16:12:19 GMT) | |
Subject: | Re: help - collect2.exe not linking element from a library |
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> From: Hans-Bernhard Broeker <broeker AT physik DOT rwth-aachen DOT de> > Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp > Date: 25 Mar 2001 16:12:19 GMT > > Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il> wrote: > [...] > > You forgot that ld.exe is a one-pass linker: it only scans the > > libraries once, in the order you specify them in the link command > > line. > > Hmmm... but isn't this true only for those libraries you specify with > -l arguments? Libs given by actual filename (like the OP's > c:/.../libmwin.a) are treated like .o files, and those are not subject > to one-pass-only treatment, AFAIK. Are you saying that if I use libc.a instead of -lc, the linker pulls the _entire_ library into the executable? That would be the only way it could work around its one-pass nature. I doubt that the linker does that, though.
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