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From: Simon Wright <simon@pushface.org>
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Subject: Re: STORAGE_ERROR in adainit
Date: 18 Aug 2004 20:44:30 +0100
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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.

-- 
Simon Wright                               100% Ada, no bugs.