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From: richard@aiai.ed.ac.uk (Richard Tobin)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards
Subject: Re: "ld -l<NULL>" == "ld -la" -- why?
Message-ID: <2191@skye.ed.ac.uk>
Date: 10 Apr 90 17:47:48 GMT
References: <1990Apr3.194823.5038@athena.mit.edu> <12504@smoke.BRL.MIL> <3142@auspex.auspex.com>
Reply-To: richard@aiai.UUCP (Richard Tobin)
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In article <3142@auspex.auspex.com> guy@auspex.auspex.com (Guy Harris) writes:
>For those of you who are wondering "what the hell is 'liba.a'?", it was,
>as I remember, a library of routines usable from assembler-language
>programs (hence the "a" in "liba", just as with the "c" in "libc"). 

And in particular (according to cc(I) in the Sixth Edition manual)
it contained assembler routines used by C routines in libc.a.

-- Richard
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