On Thu, May 05, 2005 at 04:57:48PM -0300, Alexandre Oliva wrote:
The savings of creating static libraries would be small if we refrained from building non-PIC object files.
But still largely useless. Who in their right mind is going to use an 83MB static library when a shared library is available.
Perhaps the crazy person that only needs 2MB worth of the files from said static library when the corresponding shared library is 8MB. Especially if this lunatic is trying to make the program, OS kernel etc fit in an 8MB flash memory device.
David Daney.
