From: Alexandre Oliva <aoliva@redhat.com>
To: Hal Black <hablack@vt.edu>
Cc: binutils@sources.redhat.com
Subject: Re: [BUG] ld behavior varies for C++ static initializer depending on .a or .o input
Date: Sat, 12 Apr 2003 05:43:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <oradewgtjx.fsf@free.redhat.lsd.ic.unicamp.br> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <3E978F84.4050603@vt.edu>
On Apr 12, 2003, Hal Black <hablack@vt.edu> wrote:
> Why should it be different for a .a file with the same .o files in
> it? Should .a files not be used for C++?
Because .o files are copied to the output, whereas .a files are used
as libraries, i.e., only members that offer symbols that are being
looked for are copied to the output. Can you imagine the bloat if any
time you linked with a static library, all of the code in it was
copied to your executables?
--
Alexandre Oliva Enjoy Guarana', see http://www.ic.unicamp.br/~oliva/
Red Hat GCC Developer aoliva@{redhat.com, gcc.gnu.org}
CS PhD student at IC-Unicamp oliva@{lsd.ic.unicamp.br, gnu.org}
Free Software Evangelist Professional serial bug killer
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2003-04-12 5:43 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2003-04-11 3:43 Hal Black
2003-04-11 4:47 ` Alexandre Oliva
2003-04-12 4:01 ` Hal Black
2003-04-12 5:43 ` Alexandre Oliva [this message]
2003-04-12 14:24 ` Hal Black
2003-04-12 16:52 ` Ian Lance Taylor
2003-04-12 18:01 ` Hal Black
2003-04-12 20:45 ` Alexandre Oliva
2003-04-13 2:11 ` Hal Black
2003-04-14 18:41 ` Alexandre Oliva
2003-04-13 22:55 ` Ian Lance Taylor
2003-04-13 23:07 ` Zack Weinberg
2003-04-13 23:15 ` Ian Lance Taylor
2003-04-13 23:26 ` Ulrich Drepper
2003-04-14 5:14 ` Hal Black
2003-04-14 5:30 ` Ian Lance Taylor
2003-04-11 8:16 ` Alan Modra
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