What do the "subsystem,windows" options do in gcc?

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I've looked at the man pages for gcc, but still cant find doc on what the "subsystem,windows" options do, as in:

g++.exe foo.o ... -Wl,-subsystem,windows

I'm running only in Windows, and linking C++ code. I can guess maybe what "windows" is, but would like to see some documentation.

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Thank you contributors. With your help I was able to figure this out. In my case, -subsystem,windows tells ld to not open a "Console". In my case, the "Console" is where my C printf() commands come out.

So actually this is a terrible option for debugging!

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