Manu wrote:
> If lib A has object file A:O, and it contains symbols x and y...
>
> If I now have my own object, and I define x, but also reference y, it
> will search for unresolved y in libraries, eventually finding the symbol
> in A:O, which it will then include right?
> As it includes A:O from the lib to resolve y, will it not also pull x in
> the same object, causing a collision with my existing definition of x?
>
Yes
> Basically, if an object in a lib defines multiple symbols, and I use
> one, but attempt to 'override' the other, is there a way to avoid this
> collision?
Not that I know.
> Is this the reason that CRT implementations always seem to strictly have
> one single .c file per CRT function?
Yes (not specifically to allow overrides, but to limit executable
bloat).
Jerome
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