diff --git a/app/src/processing/app/debug/Target.java b/app/src/processing/app/debug/Target.java
index 649c2827a..6849544f5 100644
--- a/app/src/processing/app/debug/Target.java
+++ b/app/src/processing/app/debug/Target.java
@@ -82,7 +82,7 @@ public class Target {
     } catch (Exception e) {
       System.err.println("Error loading platforms from " + 
                          platformsFile + ": " + e);                        
-     System.exit(0);	
+     //System.exit(0);	
     
     }    
    
diff --git a/hardware/arduino/platforms.txt b/hardware/arduino/platforms.txt
index d946b8274..ae495d5b7 100755
--- a/hardware/arduino/platforms.txt
+++ b/hardware/arduino/platforms.txt
@@ -43,7 +43,7 @@ avr.name=Arduino
 #avr.compiler.path={0}/hardware/tools/avr/bin/
 avr.compiler.c.cmd=avr-gcc
 avr.compiler.c.flags=|-c|-g|-Os|-w|-ffunction-sections|-fdata-sections
-avr.compiler.c.elf.flags=|-Os|-Wl|--gc-sections
+avr.compiler.c.elf.flags=|-Os|-Wl,--gc-sections
 avr.compiler.c.elf.cmd=avr-gcc
 avr.compiler.S.flags=|-c|-g|-assembler-with-cpp
 avr.compiler.cpp.cmd=avr-g++