* ld.texinfo (Options): Extend the description of the -O command line option.
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Nick Clifton
2007-07-25 14:56:22 +00:00
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2007-07-25 Nick Clifton <nickc@redhat.com>
PR 4824
* ld.texinfo (Options): Extend the description of the -O command
line option.
2007-07-24 Kai Tietz <kai.tietz@onevision.com>
* pep.sc: Correct ctor/dtor sentinels for 64-bit targets.

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@@ -758,7 +758,11 @@ script command @code{OUTPUT} can also specify the output file name.
@item -O @var{level}
If @var{level} is a numeric values greater than zero @command{ld} optimizes
the output. This might take significantly longer and therefore probably
should only be enabled for the final binary.
should only be enabled for the final binary. At the moment this
option only affects ELF shared library generation. Future releases of
the linker may make more use of this option. Also currently there is
no difference in the linker's behaviour for different non-zero values
of this option. Again this may change with future releases.
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