Gentoo Archives: gentoo-dev

From: Lars Wendler <polynomial-c@g.o>
To: Andrew Savchenko <bircoph@g.o>
Cc: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Developers, please work on underlinking issues!
Date: Thu, 18 Aug 2016 11:47:41
Message-Id: 20160818134712.2dcd86b2@abudhabi.paradoxon.rec
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] Developers, please work on underlinking issues! by Andrew Savchenko
1 On Thu, 18 Aug 2016 13:43:42 +0300 Andrew Savchenko wrote:
2
3 >Hi,
4 >
5 >On Wed, 17 Aug 2016 22:37:42 +0200 Michał Górny wrote:
6 >[...]
7 >> That said, I'd really like for Gentoo to be able to finally switch to
8 >> ld.gold by default.
9 >
10 >It still has problems with kernel or kernel modules here and there.
11 >
12 >Also from my experience gold demands more memory on linking large
13 >binaries, thus it it unsuitable for low-memory setups.
14 >
15 >While gold indeed has its benefits, it is still too immature to
16 >become system default.
17
18 And as long as I keep reading such statements I won't use ld.gold
19 anywhere on my (dev-)systems. A linker IMHO is a far too crucial
20 toolchain component to blindly play around with.
21
22 >Best regards,
23 >Andrew Savchenko
24
25 Cheers
26 Lars
27
28 --
29 Lars Wendler
30 Gentoo package maintainer
31 GPG: 21CC CF02 4586 0A07 ED93 9F68 498F E765 960E 9B39
32
33 Attention! New gpg key! See
34 https://www.gentoofan.org/blog/index.php?/archives/9-New-gpg-keys.html

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