On Fri, 4 Mar 2005, Adrian Bunk wrote: > > [...] So ld looks into the lib .a archive, determines that none of > > the symbols in that object file are needed to resolve a reference and > > drops the entire .o file.
> Silly question: > What's the advantage of lib-y compared to obj-y? Basically exactly what I quoted above -- unused object files don't get linked into the kernel image and don't take up (wasted) space. On the other hand, files in obj-y get linked into the kernel unconditionally. --Kai - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
