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RE: Advice requested: how big can we be?
- From: Jeff Sturm <jsturm at one-point dot com>
- To: Paul Koning <pkoning at equallogic dot com>
- Cc: S dot Bosscher at student dot tudelft dot nl, <aph at redhat dot com>, <gcc at gcc dot gnu dot org>
- Date: Tue, 16 Sep 2003 12:24:37 -0400 (EDT)
- Subject: RE: Advice requested: how big can we be?
On Tue, 16 Sep 2003, Paul Koning wrote:
> Same here. Now I understand why bootstrapping takes such an insane
> amount of time.
It's a difficult balancing act. libgcj.so is built from 1000+ object
files. Building each source file individually uses less memory takes a
lot of time, and drives ld crazy on some machines anyway (tickling GOT
limitations, etc.)
>From what I gather the current plan for libgcj is to use
--enable-intermodule as gcc itself does.
Jeff