Re: [boost] another way to (not) build the libraries

From: Marshall Clow (marshall_at_[hidden])
Date: 2006-03-29 12:49:28

At 5:13 PM +0200 3/29/06, Olaf van der Spek wrote:
>On 3/29/06, Ulrich Eckhardt <doomster_at_[hidden]> wrote:
>>  different compiler versions or settings and it reduces the additional
>>  required size of the final executable (example-prog[1] with above static
>>  linking weighs 52kB, the thread lib alone would have been 92kB already
>>  otherwise).
>
>Doesn't the linker include only those parts of a (static) lib that are
>actually used?

Depends on the linker.
Dumb linkers include everything - because it is simpler.
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