Re: [PATCH] Round-down years in "years+months" relative date view

> On Fri, 28 Aug 2009, Alex Riesen wrote:
> > And shouldn't a linker complain regarding duplicated symbols, unless
> > the other (library) symbol is defined as a weak symbol, allowing
> > overriding it with another symbol of stronger linkage?
> 
> Normally a linker would search for new objects to link only when there 
> are still symbols to resolve.  If the library is well architected (mind 
> you I don't know if that is the case on Windows or OS X) you should find 
> many small object files in a library, so to have only related functions 
> together in a single object for only the needed code to be linked in the 
> final binary. Hence the printf symbol should be in a separate object 
> file than gettimeofday, etc.
> 
> Only if the library's object file containing gettimeofday also contains 
> another symbol pulled by the linker will you see a duplicated symbol 
> error.  But this is still a possibility.  So your proposal is probably 
> cleaner.