Re: ld doesn't warn about undefined symbols

[Daniel Jacobowitz]

On Wed, Nov 02, 2005 at 06:01:03PM +0100, Jakub Jermar wrote:
> ld (from binutils 2.16) on mipsel doesn't warn about 
> undefined symbols with elf32-little and binary output 
> formats (and possibly others).
> 
> When the output format is elf32-tradlittlemips, undefined 
> symbols are reported as expected.

> My project needs to use both binary and elf32-little 
> targets, so it is essential for me to know what is going on.

No, you don't need to use either.  I strongly recommend you always let
the linker target a format that it knows about, and use objcopy to
convert to any other formats you want to generate.

> boot.bin: boot.o test.o
>       $(LD) $(LFLAGS) boot.o test.o -o $@

> OUTPUT_FORMAT(elf32-little)
> /*OUTPUT_FORMAT(binary)*/

        $(LD) $(LFLAGS) boot.o test.o -o address@hidden
        $(OBJCOPY) -O binary address@hidden $@


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Daniel Jacobowitz
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