Date: Wed, 4 Jul 2001 09:36:44 +0300 (IDT)
From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>
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Subject: Re: Upload of gcc-3.0 archives
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On Tue, 3 Jul 2001, Matthew Conte wrote:

> From: "Eli Zaretskii" <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>
> 
> > Also, what would happen if djgpp.djl _did_ exist: would GCC or the
> > linker use it?
> 
> ld only overrides the default linker script if it is told to via '-T
> name_of_linkscript'.

What wasn't clear to me was whether GCC invokes the linker with -T under 
some circumstances.

> > Finally, perhaps we should see how does this internal-script-by-default
> > affect packages that use modified linker scripts, such as dxegen, DLX,
> > etc.
> 
> assuming they use the above method, this will have no effect on them.

I'm not sure this assumption holds.