Re: as/ld silently creates programs with undefined references/symbols

[Richard Earnshaw]

On Mon, 2004-07-12 at 08:55, Nick Clifton wrote:

> I quite understand that they are annoying and I have been wondering if 
> it would be worthwhile adding a command line option to suppress them. 
> So, if you have some time, would you care to try out the attached patch 
> and let me know what you think ?

I think this is a bad idea: mapping symbols are there for a reason. 
They are absolutely essential in the process of creating be-8 format
images.  And they have other potential uses as well (accurate
disassembly of code, for example).

The time to remove them is after linking.  If you want a flag, make it a
strip or objcopy option.

R.