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From: "martinrb at google dot com" <gcc-bugzilla@gcc.gnu.org>
To: gcc-bugs@gcc.gnu.org
Subject: [Bug driver/37786] Documentation for `-symbolic' needs fixing
Date: Thu, 09 Oct 2008 23:11:00 -0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20081009231025.6989.qmail@sourceware.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <bug-37786-16725@http.gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/>



------- Comment #5 from martinrb at google dot com  2008-10-09 23:10 -------
(In reply to comment #4)
> If you want to use a specific linker option, use -Wl,XYZ or -Xlinker XYZ . 
> Since those are the documented way to pass a linker option via gcc.

I know about -Wl, and -Xlinker.

I am trying to reduce confusion,
for myself in part, but mostly for others.

The flag `-Bsymbolic' works (or at least is accepted)
despite the fact that it is not documented that such a
flag is passed to the linker.  This appears to be an
undocumented use of `-B'.  And on the other hand,
the documented flag `-symbolic', which appears to
have the same meaning, is rejected.

Does this not seem disturbingly confusing?


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http://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=37786


  parent reply	other threads:[~2008-10-09 23:11 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-10-09 18:54 [Bug driver/37786] New: " martinrb at google dot com
2008-10-09 18:58 ` [Bug driver/37786] " pinskia at gcc dot gnu dot org
2008-10-09 19:02 ` pinskia at gcc dot gnu dot org
2008-10-09 19:28 ` martinrb at google dot com
2008-10-09 20:36 ` pinskia at gcc dot gnu dot org
2008-10-09 23:11 ` martinrb at google dot com [this message]
2008-10-09 23:17 ` pinskia at gcc dot gnu dot org
2008-10-09 23:18 ` martinrb at google dot com

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