Re: Should .a library contains non-reallocatable code?

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Subject: Re: Should .a library contains non-reallocatable code?
From: Simon Richter <sjr@debian.org>
Date: Tue, 24 Feb 2015 23:16:52 +0100
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Hi,

Am 24.02.2015 um 11:01 schrieb Alastair McKinstry:

> I agree with this; are there any cases where only a static library _is_
> provided, and if so why? why not provide a .so?

In libvxi-dev I provide a -fPIC .a library only, mainly for size reasons
(the library consists of RPC proxy/stub code for the VXI-11 protocol,
and is completely generated with rpcgen).

   Simon

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