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| author | Nick Clifton <nickc@redhat.com> | 2000-01-07 19:06:46 +0000 |
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| committer | Nick Clifton <nickc@redhat.com> | 2000-01-07 19:06:46 +0000 |
| commit | 4e53152f8faf67e5af38e7b8e755113ea1719124 (patch) | |
| tree | c76948704a7d4e607a8b716e853d1119c43d15ca /ld/ld.texinfo | |
| parent | c3f6f71df382eaaaac4440a91e6f310d03fb8da6 (diff) | |
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Remind users about -Wl,
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diff --git a/ld/ld.texinfo b/ld/ld.texinfo index 382dd7e..9b822bd 100644 --- a/ld/ld.texinfo +++ b/ld/ld.texinfo @@ -228,6 +228,20 @@ requires them. For example, @samp{--oformat srec} and @samp{--oformat=srec} are equivalent. Unique abbreviations of the names of multiple-letter options are accepted. +Note - if the linker is being invoked indirectly, via a compiler driver +(eg @samp{gcc}) then all the linker command line options should be +prefixed by @samp{-Wl,} like this: + +@smallexample + gcc -Wl,--startgroup foo.o bar.o -Wl,--endgroup +@end smallexample + +This is important, because otherwise the compiler driver program may +silently drop the linker options, resulting in a bad link. + +Here is a table of the generic command line switches accepted by the GNU +linker: + @table @code @kindex -a@var{keyword} @item -a@var{keyword} |