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From: gwyn@brl-vgr.UUCP
Newsgroups: net.unix-wizards
Subject: Re: Problems with ar(1) and modified objects
Message-ID: <413@brl-vgr.UUCP>
Date: Thu, 19-Apr-84 18:38:16 EST
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Posted: Thu Apr 19 18:38:16 1984
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If main() is in the first module in the archive, then just
	cc arch.a
suffices to link everything, since the run-time startoff already has
a reference to the extern main (_main or whatever).  If the archive has
a table of contents (4.?BSD or latest AT&T UNIX), then the module
containing main() need not even be first in the archive.