2000-01-07 Nick Clifton <nickc@cygnus.com>
* ld.texinfo (Options): Remind users to preceed linker command
- line switches with -Wl, if it is being invoked by a comnpiler
- driver program.
+ line switches with -Wl, (or whatever is appropriate) if it is
+ being invoked by a comnpiler driver program.
+ Fix description of the behaviour of the -n command line switch.
Wed Jan 5 08:02:12 2000 Catherine Moore <clm@cygnus.com>
Note - if the linker is being invoked indirectly, via a compiler driver
(eg @samp{gcc}) then all the linker command line options should be
-prefixed by @samp{-Wl,} like this:
+prefixed by @samp{-Wl,} (or whatever is appropriate for the particular
+compiler driver) like this:
@smallexample
gcc -Wl,--startgroup foo.o bar.o -Wl,--endgroup
@kindex --nmagic
@item -n
@itemx --nmagic
-Set the text segment to be read only, and mark the output as
-@code{NMAGIC} if possible.
+Turn off page alignment of sections, and mark the output as
+@code{NMAGIC} if possible.
@kindex -N
@kindex --omagic