On Mon, 7 Mar 2005, Ian Lance Taylor wrote: > Nilmoni Deb <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > Lets say I am running the following command > > > > gcc z.o -lX -lY -o z > > > > and libX.a depends on a function that is defined in libY.a then the order > > of linking appears to be important. While the previous command works, the > > next one (with order reversed) will fail: > > > > gcc z.o -lY -lX -o z > > > > This problem has been observed with binutils version 2.10.91. I would > > think that ld should look back when resolving dependencies. > > This is correct and documented behaviour. All Unix linkers behave > this way.
In other words, its a feature, not a bug. It seems that the ICC (intel cc) on linux does not have this feature. Just wondering why not looking backwards (for ld) is considered desirable. thanks... > > Ian > _______________________________________________ bug-binutils mailing list bug-binutils@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-binutils
