Invisible wrote:
> Heh, yeah. (Although... I thought it was actually Eiffel, the language 
> for *reusable* software?)

Both. But mainly for reliable software.

>>> Apparently the compiler's dead code elimination works quite well.
>>
>> It's not hard if every function is in a separate .o blob.
> 
> Yeah, there's an option to do that. It tends to produce thousands of 
> tiny object files, which sometimes freaks the linker out. (Apparently.) 
> It also takes /forever/ to compile and link.

No. Then you concatenate them all into a .a file.  A .a file is simply 
essentially a zip file full of .o files.

With a .so, there's no way of knowing which functions the caller will call, 
because linking happens after you've already distributed the .so file.

-- 
Darren New, San Diego CA, USA (PST)
   Serving Suggestion:
     "Don't serve this any more. It's awful."

Post a reply to this message