I Google it, but find no suitable documents that make me clear about -Wl.
Example:
gcc -Wl,--start-group foo.o bar.o -Wl,--end-group
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4You need to improve your google fu. From the [gcc manual](https://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/gcc/Link-Options.html#Link-Options): "-Wl,option Pass option as an option to the linker" – kaylum Jan 04 '17 at 04:04
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3Google takes "-" to mean exclusion, Searching "-Wl" will exclude all results containing Wl ;) – Trevor Hickey Jan 04 '17 at 04:06
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@trevor Clearly we need a set of man pages that contain every term except the flag they are covering. – Yakk - Adam Nevraumont Jan 04 '17 at 04:11
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@yakk The GCC man page is about the most unusable man page there is. Waaay to long. – David Jan 04 '17 at 04:12
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@kaylum Many thanks, but even reading gcc manual, I still cannot figout the purpose of -Wl. Stupid me...Hope to get more detailed explanation. – olivia Jan 04 '17 at 07:03
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answered here http://stackoverflow.com/a/6562437/4490542 – e.jahandar Jan 04 '17 at 07:12
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Can someone provide the commands that actually get passed to gcc and ld from original poster question please ? – user1502776 Oct 06 '19 at 23:39