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<h3 class="section">2.2 Environment Variables</h3>
<p>You can change the behaviour of <code>ld</code> with the environment variables
<code>GNUTARGET</code>,
<code>LDEMULATION</code> and <code>COLLECT_NO_DEMANGLE</code>.
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<p><code>GNUTARGET</code> determines the input-file object format if you don’t
use ‘<samp>-b</samp>’ (or its synonym ‘<samp>--format</samp>’). Its value should be one
of the BFD names for an input format (see <a href="BFD.html#BFD">BFD</a>). If there is no
<code>GNUTARGET</code> in the environment, <code>ld</code> uses the natural format
of the target. If <code>GNUTARGET</code> is set to <code>default</code> then BFD
attempts to discover the input format by examining binary input files;
this method often succeeds, but there are potential ambiguities, since
there is no method of ensuring that the magic number used to specify
object-file formats is unique. However, the configuration procedure for
BFD on each system places the conventional format for that system first
in the search-list, so ambiguities are resolved in favor of convention.
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<p><code>LDEMULATION</code> determines the default emulation if you don’t use the
‘<samp>-m</samp>’ option. The emulation can affect various aspects of linker
behaviour, particularly the default linker script. You can list the
available emulations with the ‘<samp>--verbose</samp>’ or ‘<samp>-V</samp>’ options. If
the ‘<samp>-m</samp>’ option is not used, and the <code>LDEMULATION</code> environment
variable is not defined, the default emulation depends upon how the
linker was configured.
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<p>Normally, the linker will default to demangling symbols. However, if
<code>COLLECT_NO_DEMANGLE</code> is set in the environment, then it will
default to not demangling symbols. This environment variable is used in
a similar fashion by the <code>gcc</code> linker wrapper program. The default
may be overridden by the ‘<samp>--demangle</samp>’ and ‘<samp>--no-demangle</samp>’
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