smart linker

[Doug Gwyn]

In article <1991Feb22.011332.24359 at ux1.cso.uiuc.edu> mcdonald at aries.scs.uiuc.edu (Doug McDonald) writes:
>>I feel I should point out that the selective linking must  be done
>>on the basis of OBJECT MODULE, not FUNCTION. 
>Here "must" is too strong.

The deferred "dead code elimination" is fine, but the point is that
a conforming C implementation must act AS THOUGH external linkage
operated on the translation unit as a whole.