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Diffstat (limited to 'ld/ld.texinfo')
| -rw-r--r-- | ld/ld.texinfo | 18 |
1 files changed, 17 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/ld/ld.texinfo b/ld/ld.texinfo index 65a9d10..d60c5e8 100644 --- a/ld/ld.texinfo +++ b/ld/ld.texinfo @@ -179,7 +179,8 @@ ld [ -o @var{output} ] @var{objfile}@dots{} [ -r | -Ur ] [ -S ] [ -s ] [ -sort-common ] [ -stats ] [ -T @var{commandfile} ] [ -Ttext @var{org} ] [ -Tdata @var{org} ] - [ -Tbss @var{org} ] [ -t ] [ -u @var{symbol}] [-V] [-v] [ -version ] + [ -Tbss @var{org} ] [ -t ] [ -traditional-format ] + [ -u @var{symbol}] [-V] [-v] [ -version ] [ -warn-common ] [ -y @var{symbol} ] [ -X ] [-x ] @end smallexample @@ -597,6 +598,21 @@ preceding @samp{-L} options. Multiple @samp{-T} options accumulate. @item -t Print the names of the input files as @code{ld} processes them. +@kindex -traditional-format +@cindex traditional format +@item -traditional-format +For some targets, the output of @code{ld} is different in some ways from +the output of some existing linker. This switch requests @code{ld} to +use the traditional format instead. + +@cindex dbx +For example, on SunOS, @code{ld} combines duplicate entries in the +symbol string table. This can reduce the size of an output file with +full debugging information by over 30 percent. Unfortunately, the SunOS +@code{dbx} program can not read the resulting program (@code{gdb} has no +trouble). The @samp{-traditional-format} switch tells @code{ld} to not +combine duplicate entries. + @item -u @var{symbol} @kindex -u @var{symbol} @cindex undefined symbol |