Subject: Re: bin/6467: behavior of gcc -nostdlib
To: Todd Vierling <tv@pobox.com>
From: Chris G. Demetriou <cgd@netbsd.org>
List: netbsd-bugs
Date: 11/19/1998 21:56:03
Todd Vierling <tv@pobox.com> writes:
> To be clearer for myself, too:
> 
> We specifically want the behavior that it *doesn't*.

So why change the behaviour of a standard flag to gcc, instead of just
using "-nostdlib -Wl,-nostdlib" (or whatever) in the NetBSD makefiles
that care?

Principal of least surprise.


cgd
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