On 5/20/07, Rask Ingemann Lambertsen <rask@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
On Sun, May 20, 2007 at 07:58:30PM +0300, Sunzir Deepur wrote: > 1. the driver is not calling cpp. why is that ? isn't there a preprocessing > stage ? It has been integrated into cc1 for several years. IIRC to provide better error messages and to speed up compilation.
cc1 - is it part of the GCC ? or is it something that has been done by my Linux distribution ?
> 2. the linker binary is actually called collect2 and not ld. The linker is ld, collect2 is just a helper program. Please see <URL:http://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/gccint/Initialization.html>, in particular the last bit, for the explanation.
Thank You !! sunzir