Re: STORAGE_ERROR in adainit

[James Alan Farrell <anonymous@anonymous.com>]

On 18 Aug 2004 20:44:30 +0100, Simon Wright <simon@pushface.org>
wrote:

>James Alan Farrell <anonymous@anonymous.com> writes:
>
>> Other than that I don't understand why you would have different
>> results.  Perhaps it is because my program_error C function is in a
>> library, not in a .o file?  Don't know what different that would make,
>> though.  I'll play around with the above program to see what I get.
>
>Symbols in a library.a are loaded if required (ie, if something before
>-l rary requires symbol foo, and module bar.o in library.a contains a
>definition of foo, then bar.o is "extracted" from library.a and linked
>in).
>
>If on the other hand you include bar.o on the ld command line, it's
>linked unconditionally.

So what you are saying is (at least in this situation) it should make
no difference because the whole of the .o file is linked(?)  This
agrees with my understanding, but not with what we are seeing.  Either
I should not get the problem because the object file with
program_error is not linked OR I should get the same warning Bjorn
got.

(Apologies for the spelling of Bjorn - I do not know how to access
non-English characters on the keyboard)

Unfortunately I have not had time to look at Bjorn's program today,
and don't know if I'll get to it this week, but I will as soon as I
can.

James Alan