From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from smtp-out.tiscali.be (spoolm2.tiscalinet.be [212.35.2.51]) by dsl2.external.hp.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id AE0254834 for ; Sat, 25 Jan 2003 10:21:35 -0700 (MST) Message-ID: <3E32D7C0.9020703@tiscali.be> Date: Sat, 25 Jan 2003 18:30:24 +0000 From: Joel Soete MIME-Version: 1.0 To: John David Anglin Cc: grundler@dsl2.external.hp.com, tausq@debian.org, parisc-linux@lists.parisc-linux.org, debian-hppa@lists.debian.org Subject: Re: [parisc-linux] new gcc-default for hppa References: <200301250423.h0P4Noxq000220@hiauly1.hia.nrc.ca> In-Reply-To: <200301250423.h0P4Noxq000220@hiauly1.hia.nrc.ca> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Sender: parisc-linux-admin@lists.parisc-linux.org Errors-To: parisc-linux-admin@lists.parisc-linux.org List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Id: parisc-linux developers list List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: 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: But he spook about g++ (which I presume is different of gcc)? Thanks, Joel