"ld -l<NULL>" == "ld -la" -- why?

[Jeff Makey]

In article <3142 at auspex.auspex.com> guy at auspex.auspex.com (Guy Harris) writes:
>>I think liba.a didn't survive past Sixth Edition UNIX (circa 1976),
>
>As I remember, you're right.

Close, but no cigar.  PWB (Programmer's Workbench) UNIX, a 1978
vintage that was an incremental improvement on Sixth Edition, still
used the liba.a library.  Still, I haven't seen it since and there
seems to be no reason for modern versions of ld to support it.

                           :: Jeff Makey

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