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Re: [ghudson@MIT.EDU: Re: -Xlinker and LDFLAGS]
- To: aoliva at redhat dot com (Alexandre Oliva)
- Subject: Re: [ghudson@MIT.EDU: Re: -Xlinker and LDFLAGS]
- From: Joe Buck <jbuck at racerx dot synopsys dot com>
- Date: Thu, 11 Jan 2001 10:06:38 -0800 (PST)
- Cc: rms at gnu dot org, gcc at gcc dot gnu dot org
> On Jan 11, 2001, Joe Buck <jbuck@racerx.synopsys.com> wrote:
>
> > And maybe -R *should* work on any platform where the linker supports
> > the -R switch.
>
> This would probably make matters even worse. GNU ld accepts -R as an
> alias to -R on all platforms it supports. But that doesn't mean the
> native linker does. So, GCC's accepting -R would depend on whether
> it's configured to use GNU ld or the native linker. Doesn't appeal to
> me.
Fine, only support -R where we know that either GNU ld is always used,
or the native linker supports -R.