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From: Nick Clifton <nickc@redhat.com>
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Hi Nagaraju,

>   But when I use -mlittle-endian flag in compiler it is generating
> error as ld: target  not found collect2: ld returned 1 exit status.
>
>   So in my attempts I have used -c -mlittle-endian flags in compilation
>
>   ex: zz-gcc -c -mlittle-endian abc.c
>
>   and I linked manually with -EL option then it is working fine.
>
>    ex: zz-ld -N -EL abc.o

Possibly gcc is not passing the -EL option to the linker when performing 
the final link ?

Cheers
   Nick