low level optimization

[Jim Giles]

> And, in fact, it doesn't - if your system wants to do 'serious'
> interprocedural analysis while still allowing seperate, order
> independent compilation, there's nothing to stop it from adding an
> extra table to the object file describing the properties of that object
> file, and using a clever linker (post-compiler?) to sort all that
> information out.

Sounds exactly like what _I_ keep saying: the functionality _can_
be performed in a standard conforming way by the loader or some
other load-time tool.

J. Giles