patch to check ld

[Gabriel Dos Reis]

Ulrich Drepper <drepper@redhat.com> writes:

| Gabriel Dos Reis <Gabriel.Dos-Reis@cmla.ens-cachan.fr> writes:
| 
| > | IMHO, these flags should be the default in the linker itself, but they are 
| > | currently not.
| > 
| > I'm glad to see we agree on this.  We need opinions from the linker
| > experts on gcc.
| 
| -O1 must not be added to the specs.  The runtime can increase
| dramatically and therefore makes it unsuitable. 

OK.  I didn't test it on a large program; so I'll believe you.

| ... Why do you think I've
| added an extra option to enable this optimization?

At any case I don't think requiring users to manually play with that
option is the right way to go.  I'd prefer an automated way to achieve
that -- don't tell me a script is sufficient :-) 

-- Gaby