Re: Linker script question and/or bug

[Michael Eager <eager at eagercon dot com>]

Nick Clifton wrote:
> Hi Michael,
>
> > That works.   But if you specify the options in the
> > reverse order, it fails.
> >
> > I'll post a patch which moves processing user-specified
> > linker scripts to the same place as default linker scripts.
>
> I am sorry, but I do not think that this will be accepted.  The linker 
> documentation explicitly states that options such as -T are processed 
> when they are encountered on the command line.  Changing this behavior 
> may break linker command lines that are being used in other projects.

Bleah!  This essentially means that a linker script passed
from gcc is never going to work reasonably if it references
user-specified symbols.

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