[PATCH] ld/ldlang.c: fatal error on architecture mismatch
Ian Lance Taylor
iant@google.com
Tue May 1 16:52:00 GMT 2007
Alan Modra <amodra@bigpond.net.au> writes:
> > While we're on the subject of errors, it bugs me that the linker warns
> > and auto-selects an address if you don't provide _start or specify an
> > entry point. How do you feel about making that fatal?
>
> It might impact the testsuite. Otherwise I'm OK with the idea.
This would be a bad idea as it would break a number of embedded
builds. Embedded systems generally ignore the entry address anyhow.
Ian
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