I thought the linker only linked in symbols which were actually used?

On Tue, 2008-11-18 at 11:21 +0100, Zheng Li wrote:
> > Your biggest problem is using dot ('.') instead of underscore ('_').
> > Using a dot means that the System namespace cannot be extended by
> > external packages.  If you use an underscore then an external package
> > can extend the namespace (eg. by providing System_Newpackage)
> 
> And, doesn't that forces all sub modules to be linked into the final 
> executables even if we only use one of them?

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