Re: Force linking of .a?

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From: Mumit Khan
Date: Tue, 11 May 1999 00:00

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In article <p5ogjs8dgz.fsf@baynetworks.com>,
Paul D. Smith <psmith@baynetworks.com> wrote:
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>What we'd like to do is find some kind of linker flag (or other method)
>that forces the entire contents of particular .a's to be linked, even if
>nothing appears to reference any of the symbols in some of the .o's in
>the archive.

GNU ld has the --whole-archive option (--no-whole-archive to turn it
off) that might work for you. Don't see that feature in most other 
linkers however.

Regards,
Mumit

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From: khan@xraylith.wisc.edu (Mumit Khan)
Subject: Re: Force linking of .a?
Date: 1999/05/11
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