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| author | Nick Clifton <nickc@redhat.com> | 2020-08-10 16:35:57 +0100 |
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| committer | Nick Clifton <nickc@redhat.com> | 2020-08-10 16:35:57 +0100 |
| commit | ccd9fae5d57b9a16d00d70d9dad916133ff1ea70 (patch) | |
| tree | 87f17ed30699b373515d56557fee9a1a1445bb36 /ld | |
| parent | b3f8962bdb903bf8bc37935c189b3b32ad667c0b (diff) | |
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Improve the documentation of the linker's --relax option.
PR ld/21351
* ld.texi: Clarify the behaviour of the --relax and --no-relax
options on systems that do not support them.
Diffstat (limited to 'ld')
| -rw-r--r-- | ld/ChangeLog | 6 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | ld/ld.texi | 14 |
2 files changed, 12 insertions, 8 deletions
diff --git a/ld/ChangeLog b/ld/ChangeLog index 2539fad..64b2b63 100644 --- a/ld/ChangeLog +++ b/ld/ChangeLog @@ -1,3 +1,9 @@ +2020-08-10 Nick Clifton <nickc@redhat.com> + + PR ld/21351 + * ld.texi: Clarify the behaviour of the --relax and --no-relax + options on systems that do not support them. + 2020-08-10 H.J. Lu <hongjiu.lu@intel.com> PR binutils/26302 @@ -2030,7 +2030,7 @@ This option is only supported on a few targets. @xref{PowerPC ELF32,,@command{ld} and PowerPC 32-bit ELF Support}. @end ifset -On some platforms the @samp{--relax} option performs target-specific, +On some platforms the @option{--relax} option performs target specific, global optimizations that become possible when the linker resolves addressing in the program, such as relaxing address modes, synthesizing new instructions, selecting shorter version of current @@ -2043,14 +2043,12 @@ This is known to be the case for the Matsushita MN10200 and MN10300 family of processors. @end ifset -@ifset GENERIC -On platforms where this is not supported, @samp{--relax} is accepted, -but ignored. -@end ifset - -On platforms where @samp{--relax} is accepted the option -@samp{--no-relax} can be used to disable the feature. +On platforms where the feature is supported, the option +@option{--no-relax} will disable it. +On platforms where the feature is not supported, both @option{--relax} +and @option{--no-relax} are accepted, but ignored. + @cindex retaining specified symbols @cindex stripping all but some symbols @cindex symbols, retaining selectively |