[Bug driver/37786] Documentation for `-symbolic' needs fixing

2008-10-09 Thread martinrb at google dot com
--- Comment #7 from martinrb at google dot com 2008-10-09 23:16 --- > The flag `-Bsymbolic' works (or at least is accepted) > despite the fact that it is not documented that such a > flag is passed to the linker. Ops. Please ignore my previous msg. I have misunderstood for y

[Bug driver/37786] Documentation for `-symbolic' needs fixing

2008-10-09 Thread pinskia at gcc dot gnu dot org
--- Comment #6 from pinskia at gcc dot gnu dot org 2008-10-09 23:15 --- -B is documented on http://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/gcc-4.3.2/gcc/Directory-Options.html: -Bprefix This option specifies where to find the executables, libraries, include files, and data files of the compiler itself.

[Bug driver/37786] Documentation for `-symbolic' needs fixing

2008-10-09 Thread martinrb at google dot com
--- Comment #5 from martinrb at google dot com 2008-10-09 23:10 --- (In reply to comment #4) > If you want to use a specific linker option, use -Wl,XYZ or -Xlinker XYZ . > Since those are the documented way to pass a linker option via gcc. I know about -Wl, and -Xlinker. I am trying t

[Bug driver/37786] Documentation for `-symbolic' needs fixing

2008-10-09 Thread pinskia at gcc dot gnu dot org
--- Comment #4 from pinskia at gcc dot gnu dot org 2008-10-09 20:34 --- If you want to use a specific linker option, use -Wl,XYZ or -Xlinker XYZ . Since those are the documented way to pass a linker option via gcc. -- http://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=37786

[Bug driver/37786] Documentation for `-symbolic' needs fixing

2008-10-09 Thread martinrb at google dot com
--- Comment #3 from martinrb at google dot com 2008-10-09 19:26 --- (In reply to comment #2) > "Only a few systems support this option." > > x86-linux-gnu is one of those targets that don't support this option :). > > There is no changes needed here for the documentation as far as

[Bug driver/37786] Documentation for `-symbolic' needs fixing

2008-10-09 Thread pinskia at gcc dot gnu dot org
--- Comment #2 from pinskia at gcc dot gnu dot org 2008-10-09 19:00 --- "Only a few systems support this option." x86-linux-gnu is one of those targets that don't support this option :). There is no changes needed here for the documentation as far as I can tell so closing as inval

[Bug driver/37786] Documentation for `-symbolic' needs fixing

2008-10-09 Thread pinskia at gcc dot gnu dot org
--- Comment #1 from pinskia at gcc dot gnu dot org 2008-10-09 18:57 --- The -Bsymbolic* options are linker options so they don't get documented in GCC's documentation at all. -- http://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=37786