Re: Smart linking under UNIX

In article 91-08-090, mengel@fnal.fnal.gov (Marc Mengel) writes:


|> i.e. if you *want* separately included functions, build separate object
|> files, and use the archiver to make a library.


1) This doesn't work with all the nice and big existing libraries;
2) It's no good to create zillions of individual object files out
      of zillions of *.c's;
3) If we really care about compilers eliminating dead code, why having
      a linker so dumb that it links in megabytes of dead functions ?;


I think that ld(1) is close to braindamaged. Just to mention it, the fact that
it doesn't complain about multiple definitions is (ok, ANSI) really dangerous.


Cheers, Henrik


MPCI at LLNL
IBM Research
U. of Munich


PS: I know it's not specifically comp.arch, but I really dislike ld.
PS/2: See you at HotChips !
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