ld won't complain if asked to link obj files of different arches

[Alan Modra]

On Thu, Dec 19, 2002 at 11:31:14AM +0000, Nick Clifton wrote:
>   % ld foo.o -b binary unknown_arch.o
> 
> it will produce a warning message, but the link works:
> 
>   ld: warning: unknown architecture of input file `unknown_arch.o' is incompatible with i386 output

It would be nice if this worked without a warning.  What is the
"architecture" of a binary input file anyway?

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Alan Modra
IBM OzLabs - Linux Technology Centre