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It's possible that GNU ld is specified in terms of emulating the native linker on non-GNU *NIX platforms.

Useless
– Useless

2018-06-28 15:32:46 +00:00
Commented Jun 28, 2018 at 15:32
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@Useless In the pre-GNU ld days, you used whatever linker your platform provided. Those were rarely, if ever, capable of linking to anything other than native and wouldn't have had a switch like that. GCC was what brought cross compilation as standard equipment into the mainstream.

Blrfl
– Blrfl

2018-06-28 17:49:42 +00:00
Commented Jun 28, 2018 at 17:49

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