Support for automatic linking via pragma

[H.J. Lu]

On Fri, Mar 4, 2011 at 8:29 AM, Olaf van der Spek <olafvdspek@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Mon, Feb 28, 2011 at 7:17 PM, Olaf van der Spek <olafvdspek@gmail.com> wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> I've submitted a feature request for automatic linking via pragma:
>> http://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=12485
>> What do others think about the idea?
>
> Somebody?
>
> Let me quote the request:
> MSVC supports the following pragma, which can be used to automatically link a
> library when a header file is included. This is used by for example Boost.
>
> It makes linking with the right lib a lot simpler. No more fiddling
> with autoconf to detect the right lib name.
>

Not necessarily.  Unlike DSO, object files don't have ABI/API
information. You may not link foo.o compiled with glibc 2.5/libbar
1.3 against glibc 2.13/libbar 1.9

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H.J.