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Subject:	RE: ordinal linking for cygwin ld
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Date:	Sun, 28 Apr 2002 04:02:12 +1000
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From:	"Robert Collins" <robert DOT collins AT itdomain DOT com DOT au>
To:	"Ralf Habacker" <Ralf DOT Habacker AT freenet DOT de>,
	"Charles Wilson" <cwilson AT ece DOT gatech DOT edu>
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Ralf Habacker [mailto:Ralf DOT Habacker AT freenet DOT de] 
> Sent: Saturday, April 27, 2002 10:17 PM
> To: Robert Collins; Charles Wilson
> Cc: Kde-Cygwin; Binutils; Cygwin-Apps
> Subject: RE: ordinal linking for cygwin ld
> 
> 
> >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

Hangon, lets go back a bit. Why do you want ordinal-only linking? For
runtime or link-time performance? Or for on-disk import library size?
Or....

Rob

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