Re: Option -n does not work with ld in binutils-2.12

[Nick Clifton]

Hi Tobias,

> I think there is a bug somewhere in the option parsing of ld,
> because -n is not the same as --nmagic (which works).  My guess is
> that ld interprets -n as the beginning of '-nostdlib' or something
> similar.

Hmm, that should not be happening.  Can you provide an example please? 
 
> I also think there is something strange going on with the automatic
> ELF PHDRS generation, at least for ARM.  I'll look closer at that
> soon, but I wondering if this is a known trouble area.

It can be a problem if you are using a custom linker script, or you
are run strip on your linked executable.  But the code should be doing
the right thing, so if something is going wrong, then it is a bug.


> I get the "try linking with -N"  error for cases where I should not,
> and I can get strange segments depending on the MEMORY layout.  Are
> these known problems?  Would you be interested in a more detailed
> report?

Certainly - although please try to keep it reasonably short.  Also
please make sure that you are using the latest binutils sources
(either the 2.12 release or a current CVS snapshot) as otherwise you
might be reporting a bug that has already been fixed.

Cheers
        Nick