L.S.
Regarding the "-l" command line option for the GNU linker, the manual
page says:
"If the archive defines a symbol which was undefined in some object
which appeared before the archive on the command line, the linker will
include the appropriate file(s) from the archive."
I was wondering what "include the appropriate file(s)" exactly means in
this context. Specifically, I would like to know which code from the
archive is being *added* to the output file [*].
- code for all symbols in the archive;
- code for those object members in the archive which hold symbols that
are still unresolved;
- code for only those specific symbols that are still unresolved;
- ... something else ?
I'd appreciate very much if somebody clarified this.
Thanks in advance,
Erik Leunissen
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[*]
I emphasized "added" because imported code may be more than what is
exactly needed for symbol resolution.
