On 5 May 2011 22:30, Jon Grant wrote: > Hello > > Just looking at this page: > > http://gcc.gnu.org/faq.html#gas > > I saw this text "(the GNU loader)". Is this really an alternative name > for gas? I've not seen it called GNU loader elsewhere. I was wondering > if the text could just be removed.
It refers to the linker, ld, not to gas, and shouldn't be removed. The parenthesized text represents an alternation, the paragraph should be read as referring to the GNU assembler or to the the GNU linker (aka loader).
