Re: matching '-Wl,' in a specs file

[Andrew Haley <aph at redhat dot com>]

Gunther Nikl writes:
 > On Fri, Jul 01, 2005 at 03:19:28PM -0700, James E Wilson wrote:
 > > Gunther Nikl wrote:
 > > >A few LINK_SPEC definitions contain a "%{Wl,*:%*}" sequence.
 > > 
 > > There is no need to match -Wl options in LINK_SPEC, as it is handled by 
 > > the gcc.c driver.  The driver support was added in gcc-2.5.8.  I believe 
 > > all of these LINK_SPEC checks for -Wl are obsolete code from gcc-2.4.x 
 > > and earlier that never got cleaned up.  I confirmed this for a two of 
 > > the older ports, sol2.h and svr4.h.  The rest appear to have copied it 
 > > from one of these two files.
 > 
 >   Thanks for these interesting historical information.
 > 
 > > Is there are particular reason you are asking about this?
 > 
 >   Sometimes I use -Wl,-r and I tried to change what options to pass
 >   depending on -r.

IMO that would be really bad.  The point of "-Wl" is to pass arguments
unmolested to the linker, bypassing gcc's spec mechanism.  This si for
people who really understand what they're doing.

 > > If not, then I think the only thing we need to do here is delete all
 > > of this obsolete code.
 > 
 >   IMHO if thats really obsolete code, then it should get removed.

Yup.

Andrew.