Re: PW#5-7: Linking shared libraries with -lc

[Guy Maor <maor@ece.utexas.edu>]

Brian White <bcwhite@verisim.com> writes:

> I thought they would only be dynamically linked with libc if the linking
> program or another library had linked against libc.  Granted, this should
> be true in almost all cases, but I just wanted to get clarification.

Depends on what you mean by "be dynamically linked". If you mean the
physical act of linking, then you're right.  If you mean that the
library refers to code that isn't inside it, then no.


Guy