Re: [avr-gcc-list] Bug? gcc silently assumes mcu model when linking, creating bad executable

[Joerg Wunsch]

As Weddington, Eric wrote:

> > My guess is all this comes from a time when AVR-GCC was created,
> > and there were maybe three or four different AVRs only, so it did
> > make some sense for it to default to one of them (IIRC, it
> > defaults to the AT90S8515).

> I thought it defaults to an architecture, avr2 to be exact.

As the linker has to default to some crt*.o file, it effectively
defaults to a particular device.  But those days, the differences
between an architecture and a particular device were probably
neglicible...
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