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From: davecb@yunexus.UUCP (David Collier-Brown)
Newsgroups: comp.software-eng
Subject: Re: Linkers (was:  Re:  Coding standards)
Message-ID: <5680@yunexus.UUCP>
Date: 6 Dec 89 12:41:53 GMT
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cml@tove.umd.edu (Christopher Lott) writes:
[talking about a common linker...]
| that particular linker includes ALL code in all modules that are ".o"
| files and includes ONLY the modules needed from libraries.
|
| Anyone know if the GNU project has plans to build a better linker??

  I'd suggest writing a binder, which is a .o->.o translator which make
previously-global function and variable names local static, and only
"exports" a small list of names.  Then it could be used with any linker.
I'd suggest using the Gnu linker **code** as a framework, though...

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