Re: GAS GCC FAQ query

[Gerald Pfeifer <gerald at pfeifer dot com>]

On Fri, 6 May 2011, Jonathan Wakely wrote:
>> I would propose to clarify as:
>>
>> "To ensure that GCC finds the GNU assembler (or the GNU linker),"
> I see no harm in that change, Gerald, what do you think?

Agreed.  Things would have been different twenty years ago, but these
days using linker is a lot more natural and common (as a grep in gcc/doc
confirms, too).

I went ahead and applied the patch below.  Thanks for suggesting this!

Gerald

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 <h2><a name="gas">GCC can not find GNU as/GNU ld</a></h2>
-<p>GCC searches the PATH for an assembler and a loader, but it only
+<p>GCC searches the PATH for an assembler and a linker, but it only
 does so after searching a directory list hard-coded in the GCC
 executables.  Since, on most platforms, the hard-coded list includes
-directories in which the system assembler and loader can be found, you
+directories in which the system assembler and linker can be found, you
 may have to take one of the following actions to arrange that GCC uses
 the GNU versions of those programs.</p>
 
-<p>To ensure that GCC finds the GNU assembler (the GNU loader), which
+<p>To ensure that GCC finds the GNU assembler (the GNU linker), which
 are required by <a href="http://gcc.gnu.org/install/specific.html";>some
 configurations</a>,
 you should configure these with the same --prefix option as you used