RFC: Should the linker support '--fast' and if so, what should it do ?

[Andreas Schwab]

On Apr 01 2026, Nick Clifton wrote:

> It does not change the linker's use of -O <N> where N is a positive integer
> greater than zero.  But is does add "-O 0" to disable merging and "-O -" to
> restore the linker's default behaviour.

-Odefault would be more descriptive.

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