On Thu, 04 Nov 2010 12:41:16 -0400, Iain Buclaw <[email protected]> wrote:
== Quote from Steven Schveighoffer ([email protected])'s article
Compile time is not possible. You cannot construct the import graph
until
link time, and the linker does not support performing any kind of
analysis.
-Steve
Agreed, and what makes the plot thicker is that it also depends on the
*order*
that you send files to the linker too.
Bug report from Debian:
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=583837
That actually shouldn't matter. I believe what you are seeing is a
manifestation of bug 4384. The cycle detection algorithm is broken, it
doesn't detect some cycles, and I would not be surprised if link order
affected whether a certain cycle was detected.
-Steve
