On 2019-01-24 14:20, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote:
On 1/24/19 2:11 PM, Magnus Ihse Bursie wrote:
The default binutils linker used by gcc, the bfd linker, is slow.
The new replacement, gold, has been distributed alongside gcc for
several years now, and is a well mature, and much faster, replacement.
I would recommend testing this change on all supported targets. Gold is
definitely not as mature on all targets as bfd in my experience. There
are still some cases where it can cause issues.
Good point.
I was mainly considering x86_64 here. It might be safest to limit the
use of gold to this platform. From the developer point of view, it's the
one that counts most.
But even if I change this to only use gold on x86_64, I'd still like to
bump the binutils version globally. There's no good way to express
different version requirements on different platforms for the same
toolchain. Do you see a problem with that?
/Magnus
Adrian
