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[Gold] Skip linking when output file is newer than all inputs?
- From: Niklas Hambüchen <mail at nh2 dot me>
- To: binutils at sourceware dot org
- Date: Fri, 14 Jun 2013 19:36:43 +0800
- Subject: [Gold] Skip linking when output file is newer than all inputs?
Hi,
I'm working on speeding up some builds and looking around the
--incremental options, I came across the following question:
Is it possible to skip linking altogether when an existing output
executable is newer than all inputs?
I have seen mtime checks in the code, but when I re-run gold
--incremental multiple times, it still runs for around 500 ms, so it
does perform some work, and afterwards the mtime on the output
executable is updated.
I am new to linker internals; would you mind giving me a short
explanation on what is being done here?
Thanks you (and thanks for gold)
Niklas