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Article #50558Re: why use gld and gas ?
From: D. Erway
Date: Tue, 14 Sep 1993 03:17
Date: Tue, 14 Sep 1993 03:17
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In article <CJP.93Sep13192323@image2.uea.ac.uk>, C. Jeremy Pye <cjp@image2.uea.ac.uk> wrote: >I'm compiling gcc/++ 2.4.5 on a sparcIPX sunos 4.1.3, should I also >use gnu linked and the gnu gas (assembler)? why? My understanding is that there is not much advantage to using gas. It might be faster. There is a huge reason to NOT use gld, which is that it can't handle the sun shared libraries, meaning your executables will all be much much larger using gld, than using sun ld. On the other hand, gld is more helpful for debugging, in that it puts out error messages that identify the source file and line number for undefined symbols, or multiply defined symbols. This allows emacs' next-error command to use the ld error output to take you straight to the problem. -Don
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X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 11318c,5147dce2eaddb293 X-Google-Attributes: gid11318c,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 1993-09-13 21:13:17 PST Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!gmd.de!newsserver.jvnc.net!darwin.sura.net!cs.utk.edu!ornl!fnnews.fnal.gov!nntp-server.caltech.edu!derway From: derway@cco.caltech.edu (D. Erway) Newsgroups: gnu.gcc.help Subject: Re: why use gld and gas ? Date: 14 Sep 1993 03:17:06 GMT Organization: California Institute of Technology, Pasadena Lines: 18 Message-ID: <273d3iINN6s5@gap.caltech.edu> References: <CJP.93Sep13192323@image2.uea.ac.uk> NNTP-Posting-Host: alumni.caltech.edu