One way to do (static) linking is as follows. Before scanning the library, the linker builds a list of procedures needed, that is, names defined as EXTERN in the modules being linked. Then the linker...

One way to do (static) linking is as follows. Before scanning the library, the linker builds a list of procedures needed, that is, names defined as EXTERN in the modules being linked. Then the linker goes through the library linearly, extracting every procedure that is in the list of names needed. Does this scheme work? If not, why not and how can it be remedied?