-.\" Copyright (c) 1991 Free Software Foundation
+.\" Copyright (c) 1991, 1992 Free Software Foundation
.\" See section COPYING for conditions for redistribution
.\" $Id$
-.TH gld 1 "5 November 1991" "cygnus support" "GNU Development Tools"
+.TH gld 1 "23 January 1992" "cygnus support" "GNU Development Tools"
.de BP
.sp
.ti \-.2i
.RB "[\|" "\-R\ "\c
.I filename\c
\&\|]
+.RB "[\|" \-relax "\|]"
.RB "[\|" \-r | \-Ur "\|]"
.RB "[\|" \-S "\|]"
.RB "[\|" \-s "\|]"
to refer symbolically to absolute locations of memory defined in other
programs.
+.TP
+.B \-relax
+An option with machine dependent effects. Currently this option is only
+supported on the H8/300.
+
+On some platforms, use this option to perform global optimizations that
+become possible when the linker resolves addressing in your program, such
+as relaxing address modes and synthesizing new instructions in the
+output object file.
+
+On platforms where this is not supported, `\|\c
+.B \-relax\c
+\&\|' is accepted, but has no effect.
+
.TP
.B \-r
Generates relocatable output\(em\&i.e., generate an output file that can in
, Roland H. Pesch.
.SH COPYING
-Copyright (c) 1991 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
+Copyright (c) 1991, 1992 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
.PP
Permission is granted to make and distribute verbatim copies of
this manual provided the copyright notice and this permission notice