[PATCH 0/4] RISCV: Improve linker time complexity

Alan Modra amodra@gmail.com
Wed Apr 13 05:12:22 GMT 2022


On Wed, Apr 13, 2022 at 08:58:38AM +0800, Kito Cheng via Binutils wrote:
> And I have a suggestion here is - does it possible to let co-exist with current
> implementation and having a command line option to select the linker
> relaxation, of course we
> could default to using the new implementation, but that gives us an
> emergency fallback option to use the old implementation :)

You already have an emergency fallback, use an older binutils or
revert the patchset.  IMO you do not want two implementations of any
given feature.   Doing so just makes it more likely that neither
implementation is good.

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Alan Modra
Australia Development Lab, IBM


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