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From: bliss@sp64.csrd.uiuc.edu (Brian Bliss)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: smart linker
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Date: 23 Feb 91 22:21:54 GMT
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I used to use Pyramid's sequent multiprocessor for a class.
It has an optimizing linker that only included routines that
were referenced, not entire object modules.  If I remember correctly,
It would also removeunreferenced code/data from object modules that 
were not in libraries, so the algorithm used must have bee more
along the lines of "include a module, then remove everything
unreferenced", instead of "only include the needed symbols".

bb