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Re: Plan for incremental linking with gold
On Thu, Dec 25, 2008 at 09:56:18PM -0800, Ian Lance Taylor wrote:
> > Maybe some day a similar mode (--incremental-thorough?) can be added
> > to gold. I might be able to get permission to release the code if
> > you're interested; let me know.
>
> I would certainly be interested if you think it would be helpful. I
> haven't seen the code for any incremental linker. Which linker were
> you modifying?
It was a Python wrapper for the ARM linker.
> > It's not appropriate for your goals, but there's ways around this; it
> > just complicates layout a bit. You need to be able to answer the
> > question "does this placement violate the new linker script".
>
> Right, but I don't find this to be a very interesting case for gold,
> since it normally uses no linker script at all. And it's not like the
> linker script changes very often even for the cases where you need
> one.
True, though more true in non-embedded use. I really do have hopes of
making gold useful for embedded users some day. I just don't know
when I'll get to it :-)
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Daniel Jacobowitz
CodeSourcery