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Re: forcing the linker to be a particular one (i.e. gold vs bfd)

On 25.01.2012 16:14, Richard Guenther wrote:
On Wed, Jan 25, 2012 at 3:55 PM, Christophe Lyon<christophe.lyon@st.com> wrote:
On 25.01.2012 15:49, Richard Guenther wrote: 

You can change the linker used by adjusting your path or giving an
appropriate -B option to the gcc driver.

Richard.

Yes, but part of the thread was precisely to discuss alternatives, more
end-user friendly (for those won't know the full path to alternate linker).
Would they know that two different linkers exist, or even what a linker is?

Richard.


Yes they do, but as Matthias Klose said, it would help distribution makers (see http://sourceware.org/ml/binutils/2011-01/msg00191.html)

Maybe Matthias remembers which problems he found with his patch and LTO?

Thanks
Christophe.

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