Shared library compilation

["Doug Semler" <doug at seaspace dot com>]

I can't find this in the faq, but maybe someone knows....

Is there a particular reason why gcc -shared calls ld with all the
crt*.o files?  What happens is that when I build a shared library this
way, even on a 900 byte .o file, the shared library is 32 K. 
If I build the shared library with ld -shared (gnu linker, btw), it doesn't
bring in these files.

There is also an (IMHO) undesirable side effect that if I link a program
with a .so built with gcc -shared, then replace it with one built with
ld -shared, the executable no longer can resolve the startup code
from the crt*.o files, since they were in the shared library, the linker
never brought them into the executable!

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