Re: [PATCH] Round-down years in "years+months" relative date view

Nicolas Pitre, Fri, Aug 28, 2009 21:27:53 +0200:

On Fri, 28 Aug 2009, Alex Riesen wrote:

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And shouldn't a linker complain regarding duplicated symbols, unless
the other (library) symbol is defined as a weak symbol, allowing
overriding it with another symbol of stronger linkage?

Normally a linker would search for new objects to link only when there 
are still symbols to resolve.  If the library is well architected (mind 
you I don't know if that is the case on Windows or OS X) you should find 
many small object files in a library, so to have only related functions 
together in a single object for only the needed code to be linked in the 
final binary. Hence the printf symbol should be in a separate object 
file than gettimeofday, etc.

Only if the library's object file containing gettimeofday also contains 
another symbol pulled by the linker will you see a duplicated symbol 
error.  But this is still a possibility.  So your proposal is probably 
cleaner.

Is it so for dynamic linking as well? Like in libc.so?