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

Andreas Schwab schwab@suse.de
Wed Mar 25 13:57:52 GMT 2026


On Mär 25 2026, Nick Clifton wrote:

> @@ -605,6 +601,12 @@ struct bfd_link_info
>    /* Separator between archive and filename in linker script filespecs.  */
>    char path_separator;
>  
> +  /* Greater than 1 if we want to produced optimized output files.

to produce

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