Elad Yosef <elad.yosef@xxxxxxxxx> writes: > Doesn't it match only the files names from the specified archive? There is no colon there, so, no. You can have a list of file name patterns, and that is what is happening here. Ian > 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
