GCC 4.1: Buildable on GHz machines only?

[Alan Modra]

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