patch / RFD: speed up linker map file generation

[Hans-Peter Nilsson]

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