static lib drops objects with side-effects

[Alan Modra]

On Mon, Feb 10, 2003 at 05:03:04PM +0100, Wesley W. Terpstra wrote:
> This is a bug.

No it isn't.  Objects are extracted from archives during linking only
if the object contains a symbol satisfying an undefined symbol
reference.  If this behaviour is incompatible with your C++ model then
don't use archives.

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Alan Modra
IBM OzLabs - Linux Technology Centre