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Re: patch / RFD: speed up linker map file generation
- From: Ben Elliston <bje at au dot ibm dot com>
- To: binutils at sources dot redhat dot com
- Date: 09 Jun 2004 12:00:14 +1000
- Subject: Re: patch / RFD: speed up linker map file generation
- References: <200405051548.i45Fmm901764@linsvr1.uk.superh.com> <40A8F8CD.6050004@redhat.com>
Nick Clifton <nickc@redhat.com> writes:
> There should definitely be an option. There are users who run these
> tools on small machines who will want the old behaviour. I would
> suggest making it a generalised switch (eg
> --reduce-memory-overheads) that can be used to trigger other (as yet
> unimplemented) tweaks to the linker's behaviour.
There are plenty of applications that detect the amount of available
working memory and adjust their behaviour accordingly. Can't the
linker do the same? It seems unfortunate that we mere humans must
instruct the program to do something that it can probably figure out
better itself.
Ben