[msp430-elf] Unexpected behavior with -nostdlib

[Orlando Arias <orlandoarias at gmail dot com>]

Greetings,

I was playing around a bit with the msp430-elf toolchain and I ran into
some odd behavior which I am not sure if it is intended. I wrote a small
program in assembly [attached] which I am building with the [also
attached] makefiles.

When passing -nostdlib to the linker command, the default/simulator
linker script is used instead of the MCU specific linker script as
specified in the parameter list with the -mmcu flag. This results in all
of the code being eliminated from the program and a .text section of 0
bytes in size [as expected given the --gc-sections].

I am able to override the behavior using the proper -Wl,-T commands to
force the utilization of a linker script, but this seems less than
elegant. I expected the linker to still use the MCU specific linker
script. The documentation is not very clear as to what the expected
behavior should be in this case regarding the usage of linker scripts.

I thought I would ask this here before filing a bug. Thank you.

Cheers,
Orlando.

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#include <msp430.h>


	.section .text
	.globl timer0_isr
	.type timer0_isr, @function
timer0_isr:
	xor.b	#0xff, P1OUT
	reti


	.globl _start
	.type _start, @function
_start:
	mov.w	#(WDTPW | WDTHOLD), &WDTCTL
	mov.w	#__stack, sp

	mov.b	#0xff, &P1DIR
	mov.b	#0x01, &P1OUT


	mov.w	#CCIE, &TACCTL0
	mov.w	#62449, &TACCR0
	mov.w	#(TASSEL1 | MC0 | ID_3), &TACTL

	bis.w	#(CPUOFF | GIE), sr
	nop

	.globl main
	.type main, @function
main:
	jmp main

	.section "__interrupt_vector_reset"
.short _start
	.section "__interrupt_vector_timer0_a0"
.short timer0_isr

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