Roopesh Kohad <roopesh.kohad@xxxxxxxxx> writes: > I am supposed to take a call on GNU linker ld ported to our > subsystem environment. I ran the GCC testsuite and found that ld fails > in Bootstrap tests with following options --traditional-format, > --no-keep-memory, --relax. It passes with -static option. I am not a > power user of GNU tools so do not know the implications of these > options much. Could you throw some light on the usage of these > options? That sounds like the linker testsuite. The linker is part of the binutils, and is discussed on the binutils mailing list. See http://sourceware.org/binutils/ for more information. If the linker succeeds without -static, but fails with --traditional-format/--no-keep-memory/--relax, then I suspect that there is a linker bug somewhere. If the linker fails without -static, then there may be some issue related to shared libraries, or more probably simply a bug in the linker testsuite. Ian
