On the subject of incremental linking I did find something saying you can go ld -r -o piece1.o A.o B.o C.o ... ld -r -o piece2.o D.o E.o F.o ... ld -o all main.o piece1.o piece2.o And that way you don't have to relink D, E, and F when A, B or C changes. However, wouldn't that generate a large object file (pieceN.o)? How is linking piece1.o and piece2.o more efficient than linking all of the lesser object files at once? Is it more efficient, or does the linker have to piece together the files just as if they were separate? Starling
