https://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=109460
--- Comment #27 from Eric Botcazou <ebotcazou at gcc dot gnu.org> --- > As I said on IRC, even GCC 4.8 passes -r through to linker invocation, but > only since > r9-2994 gcc -r acts effectively the same as -r -nostdlib, before that one > had to use both options to avoid linking crt files, standard libraries and > the like even during the relocatable link. > An open question remains if mingw/cygwin supports other host compilers for > stage1, like clang, icc, msvc and the like, and whether -r or -r -nostdlib > works for those. Yes, if we could avoid partial linking altogether, that would be best.
