Re: GCC 4.1: Buildable on GHz machines only?

[Richard Earnshaw <rearnsha at gcc dot gnu dot org>]

On Thu, 2005-04-28 at 14:35, Andrew Haley wrote:
> Richard Earnshaw writes:
>  > On Wed, 2005-04-27 at 21:55, Andrew Pinski wrote:
>  > > > However, I can always tell when a GCC build has hit the libjava build
>  > > > -- that's when the *whole system* suddenly slows to a crawl.  Maybe
>  > > > it comes from doing some processing on 5000 foo.o files all at
>  > > > once... :-(
>  > > 
>  > > But that is not GCC fault that binutils cannot handle that load.
>  > > 
>  > > -- Pinski
>  > 
>  > It's not as simple as just saying "binutils should be able to cope with
>  > any number of objects thrown at it".  Part of the problem is that 5000
>  > object files exceeds the system limits of the host machine (eg command
>  > line length, etc).
> 
> If ld can't accept a list of files from a stream but is instead
> limited by command line length, then that *is* the fault of ld.

A certain proverb relating to bad workmen and tools springs to mind
here.  

I think we really need to consider whether requiring ld to support
linking of 5000 object files might mean poor library design.

R.