Re: What's the deal with building intermediate .o vs .a files?

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Graham Stoney wrote:
> I've noticed that a number of subdirectories in the kernel build intermediate
> object files using "ld -r", whereas others build archives using "ar c". Can
> someone please point me to a rationale for which is the prefered behaviour?

"ld -r" is preferred, because when you use an 'ar' library, the linker
does not know to pull in special "initcall" code sections, as there is
no hard symbol reference to initcall code sections.

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