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Re: ld and microsoft libraries


In article <199805011630.MAA09024.cygnus.gnu-win32@tweedledumb.cygnus.com>,
 <ian@cygnus.com> wrote:
>I was not aware of that feature of comdat sections.  I thought comdat
>sections mainly worked to eliminate duplicate sections, which the GNU
>linker does support.  Does the MS linker really pull specific sections
>out of an object file based on symbol references?  I don't see any
>reference to that in the PE documentation, although that doesn't mean
>it doesn't happen.  That would imply that the MS linker can treat an
>object file like an archive.

That's right.  Microsoft has a compiler option for producing objects
which can essentially be loaded "as a library".  The linker will only load
functions that are specifically referenced.
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