Andrew <andrew@xxxxxxxxxx> writes: > I was wondering if anyone could point me to some docs explaining what > -W1 does, esp how it differs from -Wl. I've just been suprised to find > an argument I thought should be -Wl only works when it is -W1 but I > can't find any documentation on -W1 so I don't really know what it is > doing. Googling turns up tutorials where -Wl is claimed to be the > correct option but then in the exmaples they use -W1. Are you sure you are asking about gcc? To my knowledge gcc does not support with a -Wl or a -W1 option. This is what I see when I try it: > gcc -W1 -c hello.c cc1: error: unrecognized command line option "-W1" > gcc -Wl -c hello.c cc1: error: unrecognized command line option "-Wl" Ian