Date: Sun, 25 Mar 2001 20:29:23 +0200
From: "Eli Zaretskii" <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>
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	Hans-Bernhard Broeker on 25 Mar 2001 16:12:19 GMT)
Subject: Re: help - collect2.exe not linking element from a library
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> From: Hans-Bernhard Broeker <broeker AT physik DOT rwth-aachen DOT de>
> Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp
> Date: 25 Mar 2001 16:12:19 GMT
> 
> Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il> wrote:
> [...]
> > You forgot that ld.exe is a one-pass linker: it only scans the
> > libraries once, in the order you specify them in the link command
> > line.  
> 
> Hmmm... but isn't this true only for those libraries you specify with
> -l arguments? Libs given by actual filename (like the OP's
> c:/.../libmwin.a) are treated like .o files, and those are not subject
> to one-pass-only treatment, AFAIK.

Are you saying that if I use libc.a instead of -lc, the linker pulls
the _entire_ library into the executable?  That would be the only way
it could work around its one-pass nature.  I doubt that the linker
does that, though.