Re: [PATCH, M2] Compiler driver patches

2013-11-21 Thread Gaius Mulley
"Joseph S. Myers" writes: > On Wed, 20 Nov 2013, Gaius Mulley wrote: > >> Thanks for all the comments regarding the set of patches. Perhaps the >> statement "use its own linker" is misleading. When gm2 is asked to link >> a module hello.mod it does the following: > > Thanks for the explanation.

Re: [PATCH, M2] Compiler driver patches

2013-11-20 Thread Joseph S. Myers
On Wed, 20 Nov 2013, Gaius Mulley wrote: > Thanks for all the comments regarding the set of patches. Perhaps the > statement "use its own linker" is misleading. When gm2 is asked to link > a module hello.mod it does the following: Thanks for the explanation. I think this is sufficiently compli

Re: [PATCH, M2] Compiler driver patches

2013-11-20 Thread Gaius Mulley
"Joseph S. Myers" writes: > On Wed, 20 Nov 2013, Gaius Mulley wrote: > >> As an example of why this is required - the Modula-2 compiler driver >> uses its own linker. So it needs to both suppress the default linker >> and also get a list of objects generated from a compiler invocation. > > I thi

Re: [PATCH, M2] Compiler driver patches

2013-11-20 Thread Joseph S. Myers
On Wed, 20 Nov 2013, Gaius Mulley wrote: > As an example of why this is required - the Modula-2 compiler driver > uses its own linker. So it needs to both suppress the default linker > and also get a list of objects generated from a compiler invocation. I think you'll need to explain that a lot