Mart Raudsepp <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> posted [EMAIL PROTECTED],
excerpted below, on  Sat, 15 Nov 2008 02:26:52 +0200:

> This is because during
> static linking all functions that are not used can be discarded from the
> final binary, while with shared libraries all the code has to remain,
> because it isn't know what will be using that shared library

That was a very useful explanation.  Thanks!

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