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Re: GCC 4.1: Buildable on GHz machines only?
- From: Alan Modra <amodra at bigpond dot net dot au>
- To: Joe Buck <Joe dot Buck at synopsys dot COM>
- Cc: "H. J. Lu" <hjl at lucon dot org>, Andrew Haley <aph at redhat dot com>,Alexandre Oliva <aoliva at redhat dot com>,David Edelsohn <dje at watson dot ibm dot com>, Andreas Schwab <schwab at suse dot de>,Richard Earnshaw <rearnsha at gcc dot gnu dot org>,Andrew Pinski <pinskia at physics dot uc dot edu>,Paul Koning <pkoning at equallogic dot com>, s dot bosscher at student dot tudelft dot nl,gcc at gcc dot gnu dot org, matt at 3am-software dot com, cow at compsoc dot man dot ac dot uk
- Date: Thu, 5 May 2005 13:10:05 +0930
- Subject: Re: GCC 4.1: Buildable on GHz machines only?
- References: <200504281609.j3SG9ZD27524@makai.watson.ibm.com> <20050428164727.GB30649@synopsys.com> <200504281654.j3SGs0D27158@makai.watson.ibm.com> <oracncw0a1.fsf@livre.redhat.lsd.ic.unicamp.br> <20050503220342.GA23969@synopsys.com> <17016.41624.799846.161219@cuddles.cambridge.redhat.com> <20050504134157.GA5261@lucon.org> <20050504160005.GB26103@synopsys.com> <20050504161719.GA7542@lucon.org> <20050504162944.GA28196@synopsys.com>
On Wed, May 04, 2005 at 09:29:44AM -0700, Joe Buck wrote:
> So the basic issue is this: why the hell does the linker need so much
> memory?
- long symbol names and lots of symbols
- lots of sections
- optimizations that edit section contents, requiring the contents to
be kept in memory. eg. string merging, relaxation.
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Alan Modra
IBM OzLabs - Linux Technology Centre