ld with --retain-symbols-file

Alan Modra amodra@bigpond.net.au
Fri Aug 1 10:06:00 GMT 2008


On Thu, Jul 31, 2008 at 05:17:45AM -0500, Steve Peltz wrote:
> If I have two sets of .o files, and I want to partial-link each set,  
> resolving all symbols and only keeping the ones I'm going to  
> reference, it seems I generally can not do that if any of those  
> symbols are referenced within their set (or even just within the same  
> file).

That's right.  ld -r doesn't resolve.  If you want it to do that for
you, you have some linker code to write..

-- 
Alan Modra
Australia Development Lab, IBM



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