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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>.

   <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 &lsquo;<samp><span class="samp">-b</span></samp>&rsquo; (or its synonym &lsquo;<samp><span class="samp">--format</span></samp>&rsquo;).  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
attempts to discover the input format by examining binary input files;
this method often succeeds, but there are potential ambiguities, since
there is no method of ensuring that the magic number used to specify
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.

   <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
&lsquo;<samp><span class="samp">-m</span></samp>&rsquo; option.  The emulation can affect various aspects of linker
behaviour, particularly the default linker script.  You can list the
available emulations with the &lsquo;<samp><span class="samp">--verbose</span></samp>&rsquo; or &lsquo;<samp><span class="samp">-V</span></samp>&rsquo; options.  If
the &lsquo;<samp><span class="samp">-m</span></samp>&rsquo; option is not used, and the <code>LDEMULATION</code> environment
variable is not defined, the default emulation depends upon how the
linker was configured.

   <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 &lsquo;<samp><span class="samp">--demangle</span></samp>&rsquo; and &lsquo;<samp><span class="samp">--no-demangle</span></samp>&rsquo;
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