This is also why I avoid them like the plague. I would be a lot less annoyed by the concept of linker scripts if the mechanism were more set up as a concatenati

This is also why I avoid them like the plague. I would be a lot less annoyed by the concept of linker scripts if the mechanism were more set up as a concatenative language where you could provide a pile of modifications to behavior that add up to something useful, rather than having to whole-hog replace all of the behavior the compiler starts with (and like, in a world using clang/lld, which supports linker scripts but doesn't internally use them--meaning there is no "default" linker script you can dump/patch--the situation is even worse than it was before... I honestly have a hard time understanding why anyone considers this system acceptable).