Work done for Incremental link so far ?

[Ian Lance Taylor]

Yinon Ehrlich <yinon.me@gmail.com> writes:

> I want to contribute to ld's incremental link feature.
>
> I looked in the mailing list' archives and saw that a lot of work was
> already done, but cannot find out what exactly.
>
> Could you please provide me with pointers for starting - what was
> already implemented, what are the next TODOs, is there any IRC channel
> to discuss this work and so on...

There is work being done to support incremental linking in the gold
linker.  Cary Coutant, CC'ed, is doing this work.  I think it's mostly a
set of patches in his own working directory, though.  There is some
design discussion at http://gcc.gnu.org/wiki/GoldIncrementalLinking .  I
don't know how up to date that is.

I'm not aware of any work on incremental linking in the GNU linker.

Ian