From: "H.J. Lu" <hjl.tools@gmail.com>
To: Olaf van der Spek <olafvdspek@gmail.com>
Cc: binutils@sourceware.org
Subject: Re: Support for automatic linking via pragma
Date: Fri, 04 Mar 2011 16:44:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <AANLkTi=CZRDnpi5dJOyamgBHA2ckzQFEb3qyhV7gsLSA@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <AANLkTimCxKpnqFZ34ELdejO6JY-CCvX_fhkSB6SWYSzF@mail.gmail.com>
On Fri, Mar 4, 2011 at 8:29 AM, Olaf van der Spek <olafvdspek@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Mon, Feb 28, 2011 at 7:17 PM, Olaf van der Spek <olafvdspek@gmail.com> wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> I've submitted a feature request for automatic linking via pragma:
>> http://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=12485
>> What do others think about the idea?
>
> Somebody?
>
> Let me quote the request:
> MSVC supports the following pragma, which can be used to automatically link a
> library when a header file is included. This is used by for example Boost.
>
> It makes linking with the right lib a lot simpler. No more fiddling
> with autoconf to detect the right lib name.
>
Not necessarily. Unlike DSO, object files don't have ABI/API
information. You may not link foo.o compiled with glibc 2.5/libbar
1.3 against glibc 2.13/libbar 1.9
--
H.J.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-03-04 16:44 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-02-28 18:17 Olaf van der Spek
2011-03-04 16:30 ` Olaf van der Spek
2011-03-04 16:44 ` H.J. Lu [this message]
2011-03-04 16:52 ` Ian Lance Taylor
2011-03-04 16:55 ` H.J. Lu
2011-03-04 17:31 ` Kai Tietz
2011-03-04 17:35 ` Olaf van der Spek
2011-03-04 18:40 ` Ian Lance Taylor
2011-03-04 17:31 ` Olaf van der Spek
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