Example: incremental linking

If your makefile is structured properly, configuration records are not likely to lose information during incremental links.

Incremental linkers typically work by determining which object files have changed since the last link and relinking only those objects. Because the linker may not read every object each time it links, a CR can, in theory, lose information as repeated links are made. But in practice, because all dependencies of the link are listed in the build script, the build script does not change from one link invocation to the next. And, because you typically list the objects or predefined dependencies of the link, those dependencies are included in the CR.