[parisc-linux] new gcc-default for hppa

Joel Soete joel.soete@tiscali.be
Sat, 25 Jan 2003 18:30:24 +0000


John David Anglin wrote:
>>That said, always in the continuity of this idea, I also notice that ld is
>>used to build some kernel parts. Is it  possible (even manually just for
>>test) to use gcc in place of ld? (if yes, howto?)
> 
> 
> When linking, gcc is just a front end for ld.  You can see what happens
> with "-v", "-Wl,-v", "-Wl,-debug", etc.  You can pass any option that
> you want to ld using the gcc "-Wl" option.  Gcc doesn't doing any linking
> itself.
> 

Ha Ok.

My confusion came from Helge Deller mail:
<http://lists.parisc-linux.org/pipermail/parisc-linux/2003-January/018970.html>

But he spook about g++ (which I presume is different of gcc)?

Thanks,
	Joel