@cindex partial link
@cindex relocatable output
@kindex -r
-@kindex --relocateable
+@kindex --relocatable
@item -r
-@itemx --relocateable
+@itemx --relocatable
Generate relocatable output---i.e., generate an output file that can in
turn serve as input to @command{ld}. This is often called @dfn{partial
linking}. As a side effect, in environments that support standard Unix