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Re: EXTERN command

From: ali hagigat <hagigatali at gmail dot com>
To: binutils at sourceware dot org
Cc: Ian Lance Taylor <iant at google dot com>, amodra at gmail dot com
Date: Mon, 28 Feb 2011 11:16:19 +0330
Subject: Re: EXTERN command
References: <AANLkTikofJJebsTLDw_ZzAkOKTTcbT_fBinacBOcWLuR@mail.gmail.com> <20110226110500.GO5959@bubble.grove.modra.org>

When i write:
gcc -lc ....
I expect libc.a is linked with my program. Does GNU ld selects some
object files from libc.a and link them with my program? or the whole
archive will be linked?

On Sat, Feb 26, 2011 at 2:35 PM, Alan Modra <amodra@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Sat, Feb 26, 2011 at 02:14:46PM +0330, ali hagigat wrote:
>> What does it mean by "additional modules"? Are they some files?
>
> Yes. ?Object files in an archive (.a file).
>
> --
> Alan Modra
> Australia Development Lab, IBM
>

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