Re: ld -o behaviour

[Nick Clifton <nickc at redhat dot com>]

Hi Ben,

: ld behaves inconsistently with its `-o' option.  If I run:
: 
: 	ld foo.o -o foo.x  or
: 	ld foo.o -ofoo.x
: 
: I get the same results.  If I run:
: 
: 	ld foo.o -omagic
: 
: ld names the output file `a.out' (as if no -o option was given at all).
: Could it be that ld accepts -omagic is if it were --omagic?

Yup.  From the linker documentation:

   For options whose names are multiple letters, either one
   dash or two can precede the option name; for example,
   -oformat and --oformat are equivalent.

So the linker is being consistent, just a little unintuitive is all.

Cheers
	Nick