static archives and search order with start/end groups

[Mike Frysinger <vapier at gentoo dot org>]

am i wrong in assuming that the start/end group options should cause the list 
of archives to be treated as one archive ?

what i'm looking at is:
gcc -static main.o --start-group libs.a libw.a --end-group
 - libs.a contains libs.o
 - libw.a contains libw.o
 - main.o defines main() which refers to moo()
 - libw.o defines moo() which refers to foo()
 - foo() is defined as a weak in libw.o
 - foo() is defined as a strong in libs.o
the idea is that the strong symbol should override the weak one, and since 
they're in the same group, this should just work.  unfortunately, in the 
aforementioned case, the weak foo() is picked over the strong foo().

if i link like so, i get the strong symbol:
gcc -static main.c libs.c libw.c
gcc -static main.o libs.o libw.o
-mike

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