Linker scripts

[Segher Boessenkool]

> A linker script passed to the gcc driver should override the one
> which the driver would pass by default.

Yes, and if current GCC has some problems with that, those bugs should
be fixed.  Sorry if I gave the impression that this would be "user  
error".

> The linker script which is
> specified must be, as you say, close enough to the standard script
> that things will work correctly.
>
> In the real world, linker scripts may be generated automatically
> to describe the memory layout of a board or processor.  There is
> no compelling reason to prohibit this *correct* linker script from
> being passed to the gcc driver and from there to ld.

As long as those scripts are close enough to the "standard" scripts,
it might/should work fine.

In most cases (as far as I have seen) where people use non-standard
linking scripts though, all bets are off (for more or less obvious
reasons), and those people would be much better of calling ld directly.

I only tried to warn the original poster of the perils involved, I  
didn't
try to draw away the attention from the apparent GCC bug.  I guess
I miserably failed, sorry about that :-)


Segher