[PATCH] Deleting discardable stabs

Jakub Jelinek jakub@redhat.com
Sun Nov 11 16:49:00 GMT 2001


On Tue, Nov 13, 2001 at 04:12:12PM -0500, Daniel Jacobowitz wrote:
> OK.  I see that for MIPS shared objects we sort dynamic relocs by
> symbol index instead of by offset, which strikes me as somewhat odd,
> but I'll assume that object files are always OK.

That's not odd at all, in fact -z combreloc does this for all non-MIPS ELF
backends (actually even more complicated sort).
It saves up to 90% of time spent on symbol lookups in the dynamic linker on
certain libraries.

	Jakub



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