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Re: How to handle linker options beginning with -f?
- To: Mark Mitchell <mark at codesourcery dot com>
- Subject: Re: How to handle linker options beginning with -f?
- From: "Joseph S. Myers" <jsm28 at cam dot ac dot uk>
- Date: Mon, 7 May 2001 22:39:32 +0100 (BST)
- cc: <hjl at lucon dot org>, <shebs at apple dot com>, <gcc at gcc dot gnu dot org>
On Mon, 7 May 2001, Mark Mitchell wrote:
> As part of the GNU project, I think our goal should be to make life
> easy for GNU programmers, which means emphasizing the latter. It is
> more important that building GNU programs can be done easily and
> uniformly across platforms than that we provide compatibility with
> vendor compilers.
>
> I think that means we should get rid of all the -rfoo gunk at some
> point.
I think it means we should keep and document some of the options.
-rdynamic is a meaningful option on any ELF platform. Similarly,
providing for building uniformly across multiple platforms says we should
provide -R on multiple platforms, not just for vendor compiler
compatibility. The semantics for such options should be defined, then
they should be supported on all platforms for which those semantics are
meaningful.
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Joseph S. Myers
jsm28@cam.ac.uk