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From: Rugxulo <rugxulo AT gmail DOT com>
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Subject: Re: djgpp/libreadline bug? (cannot use backspace)
Date: Tue, 30 Mar 2010 12:58:05 -0700 (PDT)
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Hi,

On Mar 29, 11:38=A0am, Eli Zaretskii <e DOT  DOT  DOT  AT gnu DOT org> wrote:
>
> The one from ncurses, I think. =A0GNU ld is a one-pass linker, so it
> will not load the functions from libc until it sees some other
> function that calls them.

Are you sure? I thought I read somewhere that it's two-pass for COFF
and three-pass for ELF. But I dunno, it's way beyond my
understanding!   :-/    I submit to your vast experience here.   ;-)

P.S. GNU ld still links all *.o into the .EXE even if not used. I find
that annoying. I was wondering why removing a #define and recompiling
didn't shave any output size until I proved that. I also know that
libs are better at being selective, so I ended up doing "ar rvs
libdoy.a *.o" and thus "-L. -ldoy" saved me a tiny bit (only 4k in
this example, but still ... !). Is this an inherent C problem or just
GNU ld? (Some Pascal compilers have "smartlinking", but perhaps it's
more complicated than I know.)