safe to concat object files

[y2bismil@engmail.uwaterloo.ca]

Hi all,

I was wondering it is safe to concat(onate) a bunch of object files together in
GCC.  Will the linker still be able to appropriately find all the references?

I ask this out of curiousity.  The build system we have here at work has a large
number of subdirs.  The makefiles compile each dir.  Concat all the object files
and then copy the combined object file to a 'link' directory.  Where linking is
done.

Is this safe with GCC?  Is it safe generally speaking?

Thanks,

Yamin

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