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| <h3 class="section">2.2 Environment Variables</h3> |
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| <p>You can change the behaviour of <samp><span class="command">ld</span></samp> with the environment variables |
| <code>GNUTARGET</code>, |
| <code>LDEMULATION</code> and <code>COLLECT_NO_DEMANGLE</code>. |
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| <p><a name="index-GNUTARGET-378"></a><a name="index-default-input-format-379"></a><code>GNUTARGET</code> determines the input-file object format if you don't |
| use ‘<samp><span class="samp">-b</span></samp>’ (or its synonym ‘<samp><span class="samp">--format</span></samp>’). Its value should be one |
| of the BFD names for an input format (see <a href="BFD.html#BFD">BFD</a>). If there is no |
| <code>GNUTARGET</code> in the environment, <samp><span class="command">ld</span></samp> uses the natural format |
| of the target. If <code>GNUTARGET</code> is set to <code>default</code> then BFD |
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| object-file formats is unique. However, the configuration procedure for |
| BFD on each system places the conventional format for that system first |
| in the search-list, so ambiguities are resolved in favor of convention. |
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| <p><a name="index-LDEMULATION-380"></a><a name="index-default-emulation-381"></a><a name="index-emulation_002c-default-382"></a><code>LDEMULATION</code> determines the default emulation if you don't use the |
| ‘<samp><span class="samp">-m</span></samp>’ option. The emulation can affect various aspects of linker |
| behaviour, particularly the default linker script. You can list the |
| available emulations with the ‘<samp><span class="samp">--verbose</span></samp>’ or ‘<samp><span class="samp">-V</span></samp>’ options. If |
| the ‘<samp><span class="samp">-m</span></samp>’ option is not used, and the <code>LDEMULATION</code> environment |
| variable is not defined, the default emulation depends upon how the |
| linker was configured. |
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| <p><a name="index-COLLECT_005fNO_005fDEMANGLE-383"></a><a name="index-demangling_002c-default-384"></a>Normally, the linker will default to demangling symbols. However, if |
| <code>COLLECT_NO_DEMANGLE</code> is set in the environment, then it will |
| default to not demangling symbols. This environment variable is used in |
| a similar fashion by the <code>gcc</code> linker wrapper program. The default |
| may be overridden by the ‘<samp><span class="samp">--demangle</span></samp>’ and ‘<samp><span class="samp">--no-demangle</span></samp>’ |
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