Date: Mon, 20 Mar 2000 12:11:36 +0200 (IST)
From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>
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To: "nimrod a. abing" <synflood AT eudoramail DOT com>
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On Mon, 20 Mar 2000, nimrod a. abing wrote:

> My question is, does gcc or ld do the 'smart
> linking' or dead code elimination thing when I 
> later link my library in my programs? 

They do, but not for the format used by DJGPP for object and executable 
files (COFF).  Nobody has bothered to implement this for COFF.