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Re: Troubles linking with ld
- From: Andreas Schwab <schwab at suse dot de>
- To: <securehell at hushmail dot com>
- Cc: <ian at airs dot com>, <drow at false dot org>, <binutils at sourceware dot org>
- Date: Wed, 08 Feb 2006 19:39:34 +0100
- Subject: Re: Troubles linking with ld
- References: <20060208175754.0002433C5B@mailserver5.hushmail.com>
<securehell@hushmail.com> writes:
> I am curious, though, if including a .a within another .a is possible,
> what purpose does it serve if the linker cannot handle it when creating
> a .so?
You can put any file whatsoever in an archive. Traditionally the use of
archives was not restricted to linker archives containing object files.
Andreas.
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