The ARM librarian, armar, enables sets
of ATPE object files or libraries to be collected together
and maintained in libraries. Such a library can then be passed to armlink in place
of several object files. However, linking with an object library
file does not necessarily produce the same results as linking with
all the object files collected into the object library file. This
is because armlink processes the input list and
libraries differently:
each object file in the input list
appears in the output unconditionally, although unused areas are
eliminated if the armlink -remove option
is specified
a member of library file is only included in the
output if it is referred to by an object file or a previously processed
library file.
For more information on how armlink processes
its input files, see Chapter 2 The armlink Command Syntax.
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