Date: Mon, 25 Nov 1996 07:17:17 +0200 (IST)
From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>
To: Henrik <hs AT sbbs DOT se>
Cc: djgpp AT delorie DOT com
Subject: Re: ld linker problems
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On Sun, 24 Nov 1996, Henrik wrote:

> and link them together with 'gcc file1.cc file2.cc', it turns out that the 
> 10000 bytes buffer is included in the final output file! Since the program
> (the start of which is defined to be main(), of course) doesn't reference it, 
> I don't want it there!
> 
> Obviously, ld is doing some kind of incremental linking here, and the only way 
> of solving it is by making file1.o a library and including it with -l.

Obviously, you didn't look into the DJGPP FAQ list.  This problem, the
reason for this behavior of GCC, and the available work-around are
described there in section 8.14.