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

[Richard Tobin]

In article <3142 at auspex.auspex.com> guy at auspex.auspex.com (Guy Harris) writes:
>For those of you who are wondering "what the hell is 'liba.a'?", it was,
>as I remember, a library of routines usable from assembler-language
>programs (hence the "a" in "liba", just as with the "c" in "libc"). 

And in particular (according to cc(I) in the Sixth Edition manual)
it contained assembler routines used by C routines in libc.a.

-- Richard
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