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From: Jonathan Wakely <jwakely.gcc@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: Why ld options are not listed in GCC manual?
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On Wed, 23 Feb 2022 at 11:56, =E6=B1=9F =E9=98=B4=E4=B8=80=E5=93=A5 via Gcc=
-help <gcc-help@gcc.gnu.org> wrote:
>
> Dear all:
>     I am reading the GCC manual recently and find that ld options are not=
 listed there but in Options - Untitled (sourceware.org)<http://sourceware.=
org/binutils/docs-2.16/ld/Options.html>. So why? Doesn't ld belong to GCC?

No, ld does not belong to GCC. On a typical linux system ld comes from
the binutils package, so that's why it's documented there. On other
systems such as Solaris it is provided by the OS, and the binutils
version can be installed as an optional extra. GCC doesn't provide ld
but just uses the ld that is already present on the system.

> There isn't even a hyperlink on the page. I also want to know why does th=
e GCC linker name ld?


GCC doesn't name it that, UNIX does. The name 'ld' is much older than GCC.