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Re: -O or -g on gcc linker frontend?

From: Ian Lance Taylor <iant at google dot com>
To: "Charles L. Farbstein" <charles dot farbstein at L-3Com dot com>
Cc: gcc-help at gcc dot gnu dot org
Date: 22 Jun 2006 13:01:48 -0700
Subject: Re: -O or -g on gcc linker frontend?
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"Charles L. Farbstein" <charles.farbstein@L-3Com.com> writes:

> On Thu, 2006-06-22 at 11:37 -0700, Ian Lance Taylor wrote:

> > The -g and -O options are used only when generating .o files, and are
> > ignored when linking .o files.

> Isn't the -g option used by the linker to put the debug information into
> the executable image or in the shared object library?

No.

Ian

References:
- -O or -g on gcc linker frontend?
  - From: Gerhard Theurich
- Re: -O or -g on gcc linker frontend?
  - From: Ian Lance Taylor
- Re: -O or -g on gcc linker frontend?
  - From: Charles L. Farbstein

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