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At 07:25 PM 8/15/02 +0200, Axel Siebenwirth wrote: >Hi Ray! > >What is the difference between the linking that gcc does i.e. to link many >object files into an executable and the linking that ld does? >Is it really that gcc is just to link object files together to an executable >and ld is there to link object files to an shared library? gcc compiles; it does not link. It calls ld to link. ld links multiple .o files into an executable that includes the hooks to use the shared-library functions. Then at runtime, ld.so does the runtime linking to the .so files. -- -------------------------------------------"Never tell me the odds!"-------- Ray Olszewski -- Han Solo Palo Alto, California, USA [EMAIL PROTECTED] ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- - <-> Gateway Information. This message originated from a Fidonet System (http://www.fidonet.org) and was gated at TCOB1 (http://www.tcob1.net) Please do not respond direct to this message but via the list - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-newbie" 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.linux-learn.org/faqs
