From: "Tim Van Holder" <tim DOT van DOT holder AT pandora DOT be>
To: <djgpp-workers AT delorie DOT com>
Subject: Linker scripts (was Re: Where does gcc -o foo make foo.exe)
Date: Sat, 13 Jan 2001 13:32:43 +0100
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> It's true that a stand-alone linker will make a stubified executable,
> but I doubt if users want to bypass the linker script, because many
> other things will break for them (if they want a DJGPP program).
Oh, I don't know. Mark seems to be keeping the built-in script up to
date quite nicely. As long as we have one of our own keeping an eye on
ld's built-in script, I see no reason to have our own.
If you insist on more control, ld could be forced to use scripts from
the filesystem (in $DJDIR/lib/ldscripts, I think) instead of the
built-in ones. This even allows more control, as ld uses several slightly
different scripts (depending on whether it's linking an executable or
a relocateably object or whatever).

While we're on the subject of linker scripts: Mark, could you maybe add
the following lines to binutils' i386go32.sc (either just before or after
the DWARF entries you added). They're taken from i386coff.sc, so I expect
these are valid for us as well; I've been using these for a while without
problems anyway.

  /* STABS */
  .stab  0 ${RELOCATING+(NOLOAD)} : 
  {
    [ .stab ]
  }
  .stabstr  0 ${RELOCATING+(NOLOAD)} :
  {
    [ .stabstr ]
  }