From: Scott Woods (scottw_at_[hidden])
Date: 2003-09-24 20:29:32
> > Have tried several different approaches to fix the "problem"
> > and basically couldnt really beat it. As long as you use libraries
> > (as opposed to straight objs) as one of your engineering tools
> > your hosed but the effort did result in some spin-offs.
>
> There's nothing special about libraries according to the standard,
> and in fact some implementations will exhibit the same behavior
> whether you're using a library or an object file.
Thanks for that slightly sad news :-) Had always imagined this behaviour
to be a linker issue and therefore never went looking in <insert standard>.
When you say "some implementations" is this a significant percentage
of "well-known" compiler+linker environments? Interested because of
current commitment to the behaviour. Was imagining that it was
reasonably portable.
SW