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Re: Partial linking - why?
- From: Tom Tromey <tromey at redhat dot com>
- To: Andrew Haley <aph at redhat dot com>
- Cc: java at gcc dot gnu dot org, Alexandre Oliva <aoliva at redhat dot com>
- Date: 17 Feb 2003 12:24:15 -0700
- Subject: Re: Partial linking - why?
- References: <15953.11454.811462.383410@masala.cambridge.redhat.com>
- Reply-to: tromey at redhat dot com
>>>>> "Andrew" == Andrew Haley <aph@redhat.com> writes:
Andrew> When linking libgcj, we first do a few partial links and then
Andrew> link the shared object. Perhaps that's because otherwise the
Andrew> line would be too long. But why do we do this, rather than
Andrew> making an archive and linking that with --whole-archive?
I don't know. Maybe Alexandre knows; I CCd him.
Tom