On Wed, Sep 25, 2002 at 08:45:37AM -0700, Fahim Shafi wrote: > % ld --version > GNU ld 2.11.90.0.8 ^^^^^^^^^^ That is more than a year old. The current Linux binutils does # ld -v -Wl,crap GNU ld version 2.13.90.0.4 20020814 ld: unrecognized option '-Wl,crap' ld: use the --help option for usage information H.J.