Standard behaviour when searching libraries

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1 total messages Started by Dik T. Winter Sat, 19 Jan 1991 01:54

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Author: Dik T. Winter
Date: Sat, 19 Jan 1991 01:54

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Submitted-by: dik@cwi.nl (Dik T. Winter)

As I do not have access to any of the current or forthcoming standards, I ask
this question here.  Is it defined anywhere what the behaviour of the loader
is in the load step with respect to libraries?  Especially is there any
difference between a full path specification of the library or a short hand
specification using -l?  I ask because I encountered a system that showed a
marked difference between:
	cc foo.c /usr/lib/libm.a
and:
	cc foo.c -lm
In the first case the complete library is linked into the object module,
in the second only the routines needed are linked in.
Does any standard say something about this (SVID, Posix)?
--
dik t. winter, cwi, amsterdam, nederland
dik@cwi.nl

Volume-Number: Volume 22, Number 77

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