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Le Wed, 25 Aug 2010 16:30:30 +0100
Alan Hourihane <alanh@fairlite.co.uk> a écrit:

> Hi Vincent,
> 
> When using the linker, there's an option I'd like to use called
> --warn-unresolved-symbols which works on Linux & ELF, but seems to be
> ignored completely on our MiNT version.
> 
> Basically, it allows the final link stage to occur even with unresolved
> symbols and the linker just warns.
> 
> Have you got time or shall I dig in ?

I think the answer is simply because we use static linking, and it is
of course mandatory in this case that all symbols are resolved when
linking the final executable.

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