"Lars T. Kyllingstad" <[email protected]> wrote in message news:[email protected]... > Walter Bright wrote: >> Maybe the problem is the man page for ld, which has a truly bewildering >> quantity of obtuse options, confusing people about what a linker actually >> does. > > > Amusingly, it also contains the following phrase: > > "The linker supports a plethora of command-line options, but in actual > practice few of them are used in any particular context." > > :) >
The GNU compilation tools have a lot of WTFs. My favorite: "We think that they're only done this way for historical reasons, but we aren't sure." - From the GCC Documentation (http://gcc.gnu.org/projects/beginner.html)
