RE: [avr-gcc-list] Bug? gcc silently assumes mcu model when linking, creating bad executable

[Weddington, Eric]

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> model when linking,creating bad executable
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> My guess is all this comes from a time when AVR-GCC was created, and
> there were maybe three or four different AVRs only, so it did make
> some sense for it to default to one of them (IIRC, it defaults to the
> AT90S8515). 

I thought it defaults to an architecture, avr2 to be exact.

> These days, there's really no point anymore to having it
> default to something.

I agree. It just creates confusion such as this.