什么是—— start-group 和—— end-group 命令行选项？

这些命令行选项的用途是什么? 请帮助解释以下命令行的含义:

-Wl,--start-group -lmy_lib -lyour_lib -lhis_lib -Wl,--end-group -ltheir_lib

显然它与链接有关，但 GNU 手册中没有明确分组的确切含义。

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It is for resolving circular dependences between several libraries (listed between -( and -)).

Citing Why does the order in which libraries are linked sometimes cause errors in GCC? or man ld http://linux.die.net/man/1/ld

-( archives -) or --start-group archives --end-group

The archives should be a list of archive files. They may be either explicit file names, or -l options.

The specified archives are searched repeatedly until no new undefined references are created. Normally, an archive is searched only once in the order that it is specified on the command line. If a symbol in that archive is needed to resolve an undefined symbol referred to by an object in an archive that appears later on the command line, the linker would not be able to resolve that reference. By grouping the archives, they all be searched repeatedly until all possible references are resolved.

Using this option has a significant performance cost. It is best to use it only when there are unavoidable circular references between two or more archives.

So, libraries inside the group can be searched for new symbols several time, and you need no ugly constructs like -llib1 -llib2 -llib1

PS archive means basically a static library (*.a files)


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