Doesn't it match only the files names from the specified archive? On Tue, May 29, 2012 at 8:48 PM, Ian Lance Taylor <iant@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Elad Yosef <elad.yosef@xxxxxxxxx> writes: > >> libMars-Cli.a *(.text.*) \ > > This is a list of file names. It will match any file name that matches > libMars-Cli.a or *. In other words, since * matches every file name, > this will match every file name. > > To match a file within an archive, write archive-name:file-name. To > match the whole archive, write archive-name:. See > http://sourceware.org/binutils/docs-2.22/ld/Input-Section-Basics.html . > > Ian