RE: ordinal linking for cygwin ld

[Robert Collins]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Ralf Habacker [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] 
> Sent: Saturday, April 27, 2002 10:17 PM
> To: Robert Collins; Charles Wilson
> Cc: Kde-Cygwin; Binutils; Cygwin-Apps
> Subject: RE: ordinal linking for cygwin ld
> 
> 
> >A patch to use hint ordinals when linking by name would be _very_ 
> >useful though, as that would
> >a) give the performance benefit you are looking for
> >b) allow backward compatible library versioning as link-by-name does.
> 
> But as I stated already, this needs an ld switch to 
> enable/disable ordinal linking and allow limiting of used libs or path

Hangon, lets go back a bit. Why do you want ordinal-only linking? For
runtime or link-time performance? Or for on-disk import library size?
Or....

Rob