On Tuesday 20 Mar 2012 11:46:12 Richard Guenther wrote:
On Mon, 19 Mar 2012, Cristian Rodríguez wrote:
El 19/03/12 07:16, Richard Guenther escribió:
And no, switching the default linker to gold is not a good idea IMHO given its lack of architecture support for s390 and ia64 (I suppose only x86 and arm are well-tested, not idea about the powerpc state).
Well, but what about switching to gold in those arches that it works or provide an easy way to use it when building packages ?
s390 could still use old LD and ia64..well, glibc has no support for IA64 any longer, it was removed a few months ago.
I believe gold does not support all the linker script features GNU ld does, especially I don't think gold can link the linux kernel. Can it?
[18:24] <iant> cenuij: the linux kernel sometimes works with gold and sometimes doesn't [18:24] <iant> glibc is very close but I think gold may need a couple more tweaks [18:25] <iant> roland mcgrath was looking at it a few months ago [18:25] <iant> he got it working but I don't know if all the patches are in Clearly we can't use this as a default, though I'm pretty sure some projects might benefit from using gold with LTO right now. Which is cool because we provide latest gold in binutils 2.22, so c++ hackers take note ;) Cheers the noo, Graham -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse-factory+owner@opensuse.org