[Bug ld/11178] Documentation enhancement: option -e

[konrad dot schwarz at siemens dot com]

------- Additional Comments From konrad dot schwarz at siemens dot com  
2010-01-18 07:52 -------
Hm, perhaps this behavior was changed in the meantime.

The ld I am using reports:

$ ld --version
GNU ld (GNU Binutils; openSUSE 11.1) 2.19
Copyright 2007 Free Software Foundation, Inc.

and I am quite certain that -e ENTRY does not imply -u ENTRY in this version
(e.g., my problem went away after adding -u ENTRY to a linker line containing -e
ENTRY).

There is a case to be made that -e ENTRY should not imply -u ENTRY, namely, that
there is already a defined fallback mechanism to determine the entry point
(e.g., when ENTRY is not defined), also that `ENTRY' could be a number.

Thus, unaware of PR 6766, I thought that it should be enough to add the note.

PR 6755 is struck through in Bugzilla---does that mean it was rejected?  If so,
I would leave ld as it is and add the note to the documentation.  This makes ld
slightly more flexible and its options more orthogonal.

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http://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=11178

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