Greg Ewing wrote: > Paul Davis wrote: > >> the gnu linker follows a unix tradition of interpreting the list >> of explicitly and implictly provided object files names as a >> dependency order. consider two files, a.o and b.o. suppose that a.o >> uses a function or symbol found only in b.o. in general, the linker >> will be able to link these two if the order given is "a.o b.o" but >> not if its "b.o a.o". > > Are you sure about that? I thought that ordering was only important > for libraries, and then only insofar as it affects which .o files get > pulled out of the library. > > But the order of -l options can certainly be important in any case. > I can confirm what Greg is saying. I made the same fallacy just last week on the mingw-users list as was bluntly made a fool; I tested it. However, IMNSHO, if LD can find the references in out-of-order .o object files it should be able to do the same with out-of-order library archives of object files but then I don't code LD. Earnie _______________________________________________ gtk-list mailing list gtk-list@xxxxxxxxx http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gtk-list
