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Alan Hourihane wrote:
> ld -r -o test.so test.o
> 
> and I get....
> 
> 00000000 T _test
> 00000000 t test.o
> 
> Notice the "test.o" as a symbol. I don't get that on Linux, and
> wondering why that happens ?

Oh, yes, I noticed that. It is a feature of the a.out linker.

Additional symbols are added by the linker with the names of the 
original .o files. It is to ease debugging, by using nm as you do you 
can see at which address the original files have been merged.

Note the lowercase 't': these symbols are private, totally harmless.

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Vincent Rivière