On Mon, 7 Mar 2005, Ian Lance Taylor wrote: > Nilmoni Deb <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > > 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. > > Really? I haven't tried it myself. > > > Just wondering why not looking backwards (for ld) is considered desirable. > > 1) It's traditional Unix behaviour, so changing it will break some > programs.
Any example ? > > 2) It is more efficient, as the linker can just walk through an > archive's symbol table, include all required objects, and then move > on. In other words, save an average of half the time by not looking back. > > You may want to look at the --start-group --end-group options. Thanks. I will. > > Ian > _______________________________________________ bug-binutils mailing list bug-binutils@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-binutils
