Incremental linking

[Ian Lance Taylor]

   From: hjl@lucon.org (H.J. Lu)
   Date: Fri, 10 Apr 1998 07:49:37 -0700 (PDT)

   > However, the desired use for this relinkable file is to be able to say
   > something like:
   > 
   > gcc relinkable.o module1.o module2.o ... -o my_proggy
   > 
   > Where module1.o and module2.o may already be in the relinkable.o file, but
   > because they've been specified on the command line, the symbols in those
   > module*.o files override the symbols in the relinkable.o file.  Is there a
   > way to get ld to behave this way?  Or was that half of the incremental

   I am not sure. I think it is a linker bug.

As others have also said, this is not a linker bug.  This is expected
behaviour.

Ian