Carsten Fuchs <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I guess what happens is that when the linker links the executable, it > removes all symbols from libcfsLib.a that are unused by the > executable.
Not quite: the linker doesn't remove anything from anywhere; it simply doesn't pull in the objects that it doesn't need. You may wish to read this for an explanation: http://webpages.charter.net/ppluzhnikov/linker.html If you only care about GNU ld, the --whole-archive is a good solution. If you care about portability to other linkers, use multiple '-u needed_symbol_1' ... If there are too many needed symbols, another alternative is to create an object file which will "pull" them all in: void needed_symbol_1(); void needed_symbol_2(); ... void not_called() { needed_symbol_1(); needed_symbol_2(); ... } [You'll have to explicitly list that "dummy" object on the link line.] > Thus, is there a way to make the linker *not* remove some or all > unused symbols somehow? Isn't that the supposed purpose of the > --export-dynamic parameter? No: --export-dynamic has totally different meaning and purpose. Cheers, -- In order to understand recursion you must first understand recursion. Remove /-nsp/ for email. _______________________________________________ help-gplusplus mailing list help-gplusplus@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/help-gplusplus
