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From: Anthony Liguori <anthony@codemonkey.ws>
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To: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
Cc: Blue Swirl <blauwirbel@gmail.com>, Consul <void@aleksoft.net>, Paul Brook <paul@codesourcery.com>, qemu-devel@nongnu.org

Avi Kivity wrote:
> Blue Swirl wrote:
>> I disagree, whole-archive should only be used very sparingly,
>> basically for the block/* stuff only. Otherwise most emulators will be
>> linked with a lot of unnecessary objects files from the archives that
>> will never be used on that platform.
>>   
>
> I think even for block/* we should not use whole archive.  Specifying 
> the full list of objects, or perhaps a partially linked object is much 
> cleaner.

I'm not opposed to this.  I don't see a lot of advantages to using a 
static library.

Regards,

Anthony Liguori