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DateSat, 5 Mar 2005 00:09:29 -0500 (EST)
FromKai Germaschewski <>
SubjectRe: Undefined symbols in 2.6.11-rc5-mm1
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


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