PATCH: speed up ar(1)

Daniel Jacobowitz drow@false.org
Mon Mar 14 16:24:00 GMT 2005


On Mon, Mar 14, 2005 at 09:53:14AM +0000, Nick Clifton wrote:
> Hi Steven,
> 
> >>Approved for the mainline, but not the 2.16 branch.
> 
> >Ouch, that's a shame.
> 
> You can try to persuade Daniel that including it in the branch would be 
> a good idea, but I doubt if he would agree.  The problem is that the 
> patch is too new and has the potential to introduce sublte new bugs 
> which are not immediealtey obvious from reviewing the code.  I would 
> rather that the 2.16 branch produce a working-but-slow ar than a 
> fast-but-broken one.

I am currently inclined to migrate it to 2.16 if no one has reported
problems with it in another week or two.  A lot of GCC developers use
binutils HEAD; I expect any problems in this area will turn up.

-- 
Daniel Jacobowitz
CodeSourcery, LLC



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