Hello. thank you for your reply.
Jonathan Wakely wrote, On 05/05/11 22:47:
On 5 May 2011 22:30, Jon Grant wrote:
Hello
Just looking at this page:
http://gcc.gnu.org/faq.html#gas
I saw this text "(the GNU loader)". Is this really an alternative name
for gas? I've not seen it called GNU loader elsewhere. I was wondering
if the text could just be removed.
It refers to the linker, ld, not to gas, and shouldn't be removed.
The parenthesized text represents an alternation, the paragraph should
be read as referring to the GNU assembler or to the the GNU linker
(aka loader).
Not read "ld" called a "GNU loader" in binutils documentation, the
common name I have seen is "GNU linker". (I do recall "ld" is an
abbreviation for "load" though.)
I would propose to clarify as:
"To ensure that GCC finds the GNU assembler (or the GNU linker),"
Best regards, Jon
