Add prelinking support for static libraries. #7983
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| The static library gains a new `prelink` keyword argument that can be | ||
| used to prelink object files in that target. This is mostly useful in | ||
| embedded projects. |
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I think partial linking is less rare in embedded projects only because static libraries are less rare in embedded projects. I would not mention "embedded" here. This new feature is only about static libraries anyway.
I found the two use cases listed in #5499 very interesting, I think it would be much better to mention these:
- "namespaces" more or less equivalent to
dllexportbut for static libraries - partial LTO which is better than no LTO at all when building with different toolchains.
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This is still fairly WIP and supports only GCC.