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Re: partial linking


From: Paul Jarc
Subject: Re: partial linking
Date: Fri, 05 Sep 2008 11:34:06 -0400
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Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de> wrote:
> You did not state what the final link will create.  If it creates a
> static library, then your approach may introduce larger code into
> programs that use this library, e.g., because the program really only
> needs code from a.o but it then gets that from b.o and c.o, too.

I think that's true for a partially-linked object file, but not for a
static library created with ar, right?


paul




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