[Bug binutils/12658] ld: potential infinite loop and memory leaks when link many object files

[dongsheng.song at gmail dot com]

http://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=12658

--- Comment #17 from Dongsheng Song <dongsheng.song at gmail dot com> 
2011-04-15 01:49:32 UTC ---
(In reply to comment #16)
> Ho Dongsheng,
> 
>   Hmm, I am not sure what else to suggest.  You could try turning off section
> garbage collection (--no-gc-sections) as this appears to be turned on.
> 
>   If you really have 1.2 Gb of object files then I am not sure if you can
> reasonably expect the linker to be anything but slow when you only 1G of real
> memory available.  I would strongly urge trying the link on a bigger machine.
> 
> Cheers
>   Nick

I do not care about the real time, I'm only aware the CPU (user + sys) time.

I don not think when I link object files to multiple .DLL files only use no
more than 10 minutes, but link these objects files to single .DLL file not
finished after 6 hours CPU time is acceptable.

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