ld and microsoft libraries
Christopher G. Faylor
cgf@cygnus.com
Sat May 2 15:42:00 GMT 1998
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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