Robert Collins wrote:
> Ah, path/.a instead of -L path -lname. I thought that made no differenc
> to the resulting binary for static links?
It depends. On some systems it causes the whole archive to be linked, on
other it is similar to a library where only referenced objects gets
linked by a reference search.
It is more of a conceptual difference than file formats. We could just
as well made a pre-link to link all the objects into one .o file, but
archives are simpler and more portable.
> The question still remaings for the shared module stuff that I am
> targeting down the track (and yes, it's 100% optional - static compiles
> will still be the default).
>
> So can I rename them?
If you like to and it solves some problem then yes.
/Henrik
Received on Mon Apr 02 2001 - 02:28:08 MDT
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