Re: [MiNT] binutils bug (or feature?)

[Alan Hourihane <alanh@fairlite.co.uk>]

On Wed, 2010-08-25 at 22:11 +0200, Vincent Rivière wrote:
> Alan Hourihane wrote:
> > When using the linker, there's an option I'd like to use called
> > --warn-unresolved-symbols which works on Linux & ELF, but seems to be
> > ignored completely on our MiNT version.
> > 
> > Basically, it allows the final link stage to occur even with unresolved
> > symbols and the linker just warns.
> > 
> > Have you got time or shall I dig in ?
> 
> I didn't know that option.
> It is probably totally ignored by the standard a.out linker, which is 
> used by our MiNT target.
> 
> I'm not really in the mood of digging into the binutils :S

No problem, I'll dig in.

> For curiosity, in which cases can this option be useful ?

Mind bending stuff.... :-)

Alan.