On 12 September 2011 01:22, Jeffrey Walton wrote: > I've been searching for their existence/creation on the web and in: > > http://gcc.gnu.org/gcc-4.0/changes.html > http://gcc.gnu.org/gcc-4.1/changes.html > http://gcc.gnu.org/gcc-4.2/changes.html > http://gcc.gnu.org/gcc-4.3/changes.html > http://gcc.gnu.org/gcc-4.4/changes.html > http://gcc.gnu.org/gcc-4.5/changes.html > > Does anyone know when the linker switches came into being? They're linker switches, so you probably want to look at the GNU linker's documentation, not GCC's.