From: utzoo!decvax!harpo!npoiv!alice!rabbit!ark
Newsgroups: net.unix-wizards
Title: Re: the -n flag on ld on 4.1bsd
Article-I.D.: rabbit.842
Posted: Tue Oct 26 21:39:24 1982
Received: Wed Oct 27 09:15:43 1982
References: cincy.1121

The version of ld in use on our 4.1BSD system behaves as follows.
It can produce load modules in "old format" (writeable text and data),
in "shared format" (pure text, writeable data, but no particular
boundaries observed), and "paged format" (pure text with size rounded
up to a multiple of 1024 bytes.  If you say -z you get paged format.
If you say -n you get paged format.  If you say nothing you get old format.
The cc command supplies -z to the loader unless you say -n at it.
If you want to get an old format load module from cc, you must say
cc -N, which removes the -z from the loader's input.