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diff --git a/ld/ld.texinfo b/ld/ld.texinfo index 2bc54e4..6ca9432 100644 --- a/ld/ld.texinfo +++ b/ld/ld.texinfo @@ -852,17 +852,19 @@ space between @var{symbol}, the equals sign (``@key{=}''), and @var{expression}. @cindex demangling, from command line -@kindex --demangle +@kindex --demangle[=@var{style}] @kindex --no-demangle -@item --demangle +@item --demangle[=@var{style}] @itemx --no-demangle These options control whether to demangle symbol names in error messages and other output. When the linker is told to demangle, it tries to present symbol names in a readable fashion: it strips leading underscores if they are used by the object file format, and converts C++ -mangled symbol names into user readable names. The linker will demangle -by default unless the environment variable @samp{COLLECT_NO_DEMANGLE} is -set. These options may be used to override the default. +mangled symbol names into user readable names. Different compilers have +different mangling styles. The optional demangling style argument can be used +to choose an appropriate demangling style for your compiler. The linker will +demangle by default unless the environment variable @samp{COLLECT_NO_DEMANGLE} +is set. These options may be used to override the default. @cindex dynamic linker, from command line @kindex --dynamic-linker @var{file} @@ -1072,6 +1074,11 @@ specifies the first set of directories to search. The either by specifying a list of names separated by colons, or by appearing multiple times. +This option should be used with caution as it overrides the search path +that may have been hard compiled into a shared library. In such a case it +is possible to use unintentionally a different search path than the +runtime linker would do. + The linker uses the following search paths to locate required shared libraries. @enumerate |