ld issues

Thu Jul 17 05:57:00 GMT 2003

From: Andrew Haley <aph@redhat.com>
>> Indeed. It fascinates me how often this question comes up -- why do
> people want to invoke the linker directly instead of having gcj do the
> job, when the latter obviously works and the former doesn't?
>
In my case it's because the java modules gcj is compiling are part of another language's runtime. It has its own requirements when it comes to linking.
But more generally, what if every language wanted to force you to link with its own compiler ? This would make multi-language development impossible. For myself, I would find a restriction that you needed to link using the compiler that built the main module acceptable; having to use gcj to link just because I have some library modules written in java doesn't seem entirely fair.
Regards,
Robin
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