parallelized 'ld'?

Alan Modra amodra@bigpond.net.au
Wed Aug 27 05:56:00 GMT 2003


On Tue, Aug 26, 2003 at 10:29:25PM -0700, Ian Lance Taylor wrote:
> But we don't have one hash table per object file.  We have one hash
> table for the entire link.  A single overly large hash table, within
> reason, is harmless.

Duh.  I spoke without thinking.  What I had in the back of my mind was
that there is a case where we can use a smaller hash table if we have
expandable tables.  Not the symbol table, but the section hash table,
which is per input bfd.

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Alan Modra
IBM OzLabs - Linux Technology Centre



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