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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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-