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From:	"Ralf Habacker" <Ralf DOT Habacker AT freenet DOT de>
To:	"Robert Collins" <robert DOT collins AT itdomain DOT com DOT au>,
	"Charles Wilson" <cwilson AT ece DOT gatech DOT edu>
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Subject:	RE: ordinal linking for cygwin ld
Date:	Sat, 27 Apr 2002 14:16:43 +0200
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>A patch to use hint ordinals when linking by name would be _very_ useful
>though, as that would
>a) give the performance benefit you are looking for
>b) allow backward compatible library versioning as link-by-name does.

But as I stated already, this needs an ld switch to enable/disable ordinal
linking and allow limiting of used libs or path

for example

--enable-ordinal-link[=path1[,path2]]

	enable ordinal linking for given path/files or unlimited ordinal linking if no
path is given.

--disable-ordinal-link[=path1[,path2]]

	disable ordinal linking for the following path/files

Ralf

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