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GNU Info (ld.info)EnvironmentEnvironment Variables ===================== You can change the behavior of `ld' with the environment variables `GNUTARGET', `LDEMULATION', and `COLLECT_NO_DEMANGLE'. `GNUTARGET' determines the input-file object format if you don't use `-b' (or its synonym `--format'). Its value should be one of the BFD names for an input format (Note: BFD). If there is no `GNUTARGET' in the environment, `ld' uses the natural format of the target. If `GNUTARGET' is set to `default' then BFD attempts to discover the input format by examining binary input files; this method often succeeds, but there are potential ambiguities, since there is no method of ensuring that the magic number used to specify object-file formats is unique. However, the configuration procedure for BFD on each system places the conventional format for that system first in the search-list, so ambiguities are resolved in favor of convention. `LDEMULATION' determines the default emulation if you don't use the `-m' option. The emulation can affect various aspects of linker behaviour, particularly the default linker script. You can list the available emulations with the `--verbose' or `-V' options. If the `-m' option is not used, and the `LDEMULATION' environment variable is not defined, the default emulation depends upon how the linker was configured. Normally, the linker will default to demangling symbols. However, if `COLLECT_NO_DEMANGLE' is set in the environment, then it will default to not demangling symbols. This environment variable is used in a similar fashion by the `gcc' linker wrapper program. The default may be overridden by the `--demangle' and `--no-demangle' options. automatically generated by info2www version 1.2.2.9 |