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Update manual to correctly reflect forwardrefmax behaviour Add a note to autobranchlength referencing forwardrefmax and also not that forwardrefmax is enabled by default.
author William Astle <lost@l-w.ca>
date Tue, 13 Apr 2021 15:38:12 -0600
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74 >Chapter 4. LWLINK</H1
75 ><P
76 >The LWTOOLS linker is called LWLINK. This chapter documents the various features
77 of the linker.</P
78 ><DIV
79 CLASS="SECTION"
80 ><H1
81 CLASS="SECTION"
82 ><A
83 NAME="AEN831"
84 >4.1. Command Line Options</A
85 ></H1
86 ><P
87 >The binary for LWLINK is called "lwlink". Note that the binary is in lower
88 case. lwlink takes the following command line arguments.</P
89 ><P
90 ></P
91 ><DIV
92 CLASS="VARIABLELIST"
93 ><DL
94 ><DT
95 ><CODE
96 CLASS="OPTION"
97 >--decb</CODE
98 >, <CODE
99 CLASS="OPTION"
100 >-b</CODE
101 ></DT
102 ><DD
103 ><P
104 >Selects the DECB output format target. This is equivalent to <CODE
105 CLASS="OPTION"
106 >--format=decb</CODE
107 ></P
108 ></DD
109 ><DT
110 ><CODE
111 CLASS="OPTION"
112 >--output=FILE</CODE
113 >, <CODE
114 CLASS="OPTION"
115 >-o FILE</CODE
116 ></DT
117 ><DD
118 ><P
119 >This option specifies the name of the output file. If not specified, the
120 default is <CODE
121 CLASS="OPTION"
122 >a.out</CODE
123 >.</P
124 ></DD
125 ><DT
126 ><CODE
127 CLASS="OPTION"
128 >--format=TYPE</CODE
129 >, <CODE
130 CLASS="OPTION"
131 >-f TYPE</CODE
132 ></DT
133 ><DD
134 ><P
135 >This option specifies the output format. Valid values are <CODE
136 CLASS="OPTION"
137 >decb</CODE
138 >
139 and <CODE
140 CLASS="OPTION"
141 >raw</CODE
142 ></P
143 ></DD
144 ><DT
145 ><CODE
146 CLASS="OPTION"
147 >--raw</CODE
148 >, <CODE
149 CLASS="OPTION"
150 >-r</CODE
151 ></DT
152 ><DD
153 ><P
154 >This option specifies the raw output format.
155 It is equivalent to <CODE
156 CLASS="OPTION"
157 >--format=raw</CODE
158 >
159 and <CODE
160 CLASS="OPTION"
161 >-f raw</CODE
162 ></P
163 ></DD
164 ><DT
165 ><CODE
166 CLASS="OPTION"
167 >--script=FILE</CODE
168 >, <CODE
169 CLASS="OPTION"
170 >-s</CODE
171 ></DT
172 ><DD
173 ><P
174 >This option allows specifying a linking script to override the linker's
175 built in defaults.</P
176 ></DD
177 ><DT
178 ><CODE
179 CLASS="OPTION"
180 >--section-base=SECT=BASE</CODE
181 ></DT
182 ><DD
183 ><P
184 >Cause section SECT to load at base address BASE. This will be prepended
185 to the built-in link script. It is ignored if a link script is provided.</P
186 ></DD
187 ><DT
188 ><CODE
189 CLASS="OPTION"
190 >--map=FILE</CODE
191 >, <CODE
192 CLASS="OPTION"
193 >-m FILE</CODE
194 ></DT
195 ><DD
196 ><P
197 >This will output a description of the link result to FILE.</P
198 ></DD
199 ><DT
200 ><CODE
201 CLASS="OPTION"
202 >--library=LIBSPEC</CODE
203 >, <CODE
204 CLASS="OPTION"
205 >-l LIBSPEC</CODE
206 ></DT
207 ><DD
208 ><P
209 >Load a library using the library search path. If LIBSPEC is prefixed with a
210 colon (":"), then LIBSPEC is the precise filename to be searched for in the
211 library path. Otherwise, LIBSPEC will have "lib" prepended and ".a" appended.</P
212 ></DD
213 ><DT
214 ><CODE
215 CLASS="OPTION"
216 >--library-path=DIR</CODE
217 >, <CODE
218 CLASS="OPTION"
219 >-L DIR</CODE
220 ></DT
221 ><DD
222 ><P
223 >Add DIR to the library search path.</P
224 ></DD
225 ><DT
226 ><CODE
227 CLASS="OPTION"
228 >--debug</CODE
229 >, <CODE
230 CLASS="OPTION"
231 >-d</CODE
232 ></DT
233 ><DD
234 ><P
235 >This option increases the debugging level. It is only useful for LWTOOLS
236 developers.</P
237 ></DD
238 ><DT
239 ><CODE
240 CLASS="OPTION"
241 >--help</CODE
242 >, <CODE
243 CLASS="OPTION"
244 >-?</CODE
245 ></DT
246 ><DD
247 ><P
248 >This provides a listing of command line options and a brief description
249 of each.</P
250 ></DD
251 ><DT
252 ><CODE
253 CLASS="OPTION"
254 >--usage</CODE
255 ></DT
256 ><DD
257 ><P
258 >This will display a usage summary
259 of each command line option.</P
260 ></DD
261 ><DT
262 ><CODE
263 CLASS="OPTION"
264 >--version</CODE
265 >, <CODE
266 CLASS="OPTION"
267 >-V</CODE
268 ></DT
269 ><DD
270 ><P
271 >This will display the version of LWLINK.</P
272 ></DD
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