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From: lehmann AT mathematik DOT th-darmstadt DOT de (Alexander Lehmann)
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp
Subject: Re: .OBJ vs .O (was re:RHIDE and DJGPP)
Date: 13 Aug 1996 21:03:45 GMT
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stwand07 AT uctvms DOT uct DOT ac DOT za wrote:

: I remember someone saying that if you say "gcc myprog.o mylib.a" the
: linker doesn't exclude routines in 'mylib' that aren't used. To do
: this one must use the "-l" option. (eg. "gcc myprog.o -lmy" to link
: libmy.a).

No, that is independent of whether you use -l or not (the main reason
to use -l is to have the linker find the libs in different search dirs
and to get references to shared libraries right (but that's not an
issue with DJGPP, of course)). 


bye, Alexander

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