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Re: ld issues
- From: Jeff Sturm <jsturm at one-point dot com>
- To: Andrew Haley <aph at redhat dot com>
- Cc: Steve Pribyl <steve at netfuel dot com>, gcj mail list <java at gcc dot gnu dot org>
- Date: Wed, 9 Jul 2003 13:35:33 -0400 (EDT)
- Subject: Re: ld issues
On Wed, 9 Jul 2003, Andrew Haley wrote:
> Indeed. It fascinates me how often this question comes up --
Yeah, me too.
> why do
> people want to invoke the linker directly instead of having gcj do the
> job, when the latter obviously works and the former doesn't?
Habit? Lots of legacy makefiles still use "ld -shared" (or variants like
"ld -G"), I suspect. There may also be older non-gcc compiler drivers
that don't understand "-shared" or have any equivalent.
Of course that has nothing to do with gcj.
Jeff