[4855] in Athena Bugs
ld man page
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Joe Harrington)
Wed May 2 00:06:39 1990
Date: Wed, 2 May 90 00:04:32 -0400
From: Joe Harrington <jh@ATHENA.MIT.EDU>
To: bugs@ATHENA.MIT.EDU
Cc: jh@ATHENA.MIT.EDU
Reply-To: jh@ATHENA.MIT.EDU
ld(1):
...
If any argument is a library, it is searched exactly once at
the point it is encountered in the argument list. Only
those routines defining an unresolved external reference are
loaded.
...
I have the word of a number of most reputable sources (jfc, raeburn,
jik) that they really mean "files containing routines" not "routines"
here.
--jh--
