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Diffstat (limited to 'ld/ld.texi')
| -rw-r--r-- | ld/ld.texi | 14 |
1 files changed, 6 insertions, 8 deletions
@@ -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 |