Extremelly long link times with gcc3.x

[Alan Modra]

On Thu, Jan 23, 2003 at 09:51:36AM +0100, Manuel Serrano wrote:
> > Could you link without "-g" debugging symbols and report the link time?
> Ooops, I have forgotten to add this time. Adding/removing -g flag does not
> change the link time. In other words, it is more or less the same thing 
> with or without -g. Without -g it last 1096 seconds. Sorry.

I'm curious as to where ld is spinning.  Can you use gdb to attach to
a running ld, somewhere around the halfway mark, and report a backtrace?

-- 
Alan Modra
IBM OzLabs - Linux Technology Centre