Re: A simple linker script question

[Nick Clifton <nickc at redhat dot com>]

Hi Tao,

> I understand the piece of linker script you wrote in your email, it will
> place non-user code and data before user code and data. What if I want
> more fine grained control?  Say I want to place libfoo.a before libbar.a,
> I need to do some patten matching. That's my current problem. I think the
> names of the input libraries have full path with them, for example,
> /usr/lib/libfoo.a(foo1.o). I don't know how to pattern match those '/' and
> '(' and ')' in linker script. I tried single and double quote and it looks
> not working. Could anybody give some help?

I am sorry, but I just do not think that this is possible with the 
current implementation of the linker.  Can you give us more information 
about what you are trying to do ?  Perhaps there is a different way that 
the same results can be achieved.

Cheers
  Nick