"gcc -pipe" and ld

[Andreas Schwab]

Erik Leunissen <e.leunissen@hccnet.nl> writes:

>     gcc -pipe -o myLib.so myLib.c -lm
>
> How does the linker get the object code for myLib?
> a. from a temporary file, saved by the compiler?
> b. on stdin from a pipe that connects to the compilers stdout?
> c. ???

It's case a.  The -pipe option is ignored in the linking step.

Andreas.

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