#pragma comment (lib, ...)

[H. S. Teoh]

On Wed, Oct 10, 2012 at 10:56:30PM +0400, Dmitry Olshansky wrote:
> On 10-Oct-12 22:54, H. S. Teoh wrote:
> >On Wed, Oct 10, 2012 at 08:56:49AM -0700, Walter Bright wrote:
> >>On 10/10/2012 8:19 AM, Simen Kjaeraas wrote:
> >>>On 2012-10-10, 16:19, Walter Bright wrote:
> >>>>Some object module formats do not have the ability to embed a
> >>>>library reference in them. Elf (cough cough), Mach-O (wheeze)
> >>>
> >>>ELF has .comment and .note sections. While they're not exactly
> >>>intended for the purpose, they seem to fit the bill?
> >>>
> >>>It'd of course require a linker to know what to do with the data,
> >>>but it seems to me this would not interfere with other uses.
> >>
> >>Exactly. Embedding it in a comment section accomplishes exactly
> >>nothing if the linker ignores it.
> >[...]
> >
> >I thought the point was that linkers that *did* understand it will do
> >the right thing, and linkers that don't will fall back to the
> >traditional way (require specifying libraries on the command-line).
> >
> 
> BTW making the smart linker driver should be relatively easy: just
> get the special section contents out of passed object files and turn
> that into a full blown set of flags for a dumb linker.
[...]

Excellent idea!


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