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Re: patch / RFD: speed up linker map file generation
- From: Hans-Peter Nilsson <hp at bitrange dot com>
- To: binutils at sources dot redhat dot com
- Date: Tue, 8 Jun 2004 23:21:17 -0400 (EDT)
- Subject: Re: patch / RFD: speed up linker map file generation
- References: <200405051548.i45Fmm901764@linsvr1.uk.superh.com><40A8F8CD.6050004@redhat.com> <87y8mxh4nl.fsf@au.ibm.com>
On Tue, 9 Jun 2004, Ben Elliston wrote:
> Nick Clifton <nickc@redhat.com> writes:
> 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.
When/if you or Someone Else adds this feature, pretty please
also remember to add some kind of parameter-dump option and
option to explicitly set the parameter(s), for sake of
repeatability when debugging memory-allocation-related bugs.
(Like with GCC.)
brgds, H-P