Weird output for gcc -Wl,option
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Description
I was looking for the explanations on this command:
gcc -shared -o c.so -Wl,--whole-archive a.a b.a -Wl,--no-whole-archive
Which I've found on this StackOverflow post.
Oddly, explainshell does not recognize the -Wl,option but assumes the l in -Wl to stand for the "library" option. It shows some other apparently misplaced results.
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Research direction
Reproduce the reported command gcc -shared -o c.so -Wl,--whole-archive a.a b.a -Wl,--no-whole-archive in explainshell and inspect how its command-line parser handles -Wl,option. Compare the output with the linked GCC option explanation; done means the linker options are recognized and the displayed explanations are no longer misplaced.
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Assessment
- Tech stack
- c
- Domain
- cli, compilers
- Issue type
- Bug
- Difficulty
- 3/5
- Estimated time
- 1-2 days
- Activity status
- Stale
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- Mostly clear
- Newbie friendliness
- 42/100