Arguably if you're not running enough jobs to justify a few minutes of link-time LTO overhead, you should probably be building gem5.debug or gem5.opt anyway... IIRC, the main purpose of --no-lto was to deal with platforms/systems where LTO was outrageously expensive (several tens of minutes, not just five).
Steve On Wed, Jul 10, 2013 at 9:09 AM, Andreas Hansson <[email protected]>wrote: > The fast binary is by default built using LTO as the assumption is that > you only use fast to run a large chunks of experiments. You can disable > LTO by passing --no-lto. > > Andreas > > On 10/07/2013 16:49, "Guru Prasad" <[email protected]> wrote: > > >Hi, > > > >While working with a really old version of gem5 (9197), incremental > >building was really fast (usually under a minute). > >However, with newer revisions (9801), although compiling is being done > >incrementally and quick, the linking stage takes very long (about > >5~6minutes).. > > > >Is there any configuration parameter I can set to improve this? > > > >Could this warning in any way be associated with the increased build time? > > > > [ LINK] -> ARM/gem5.fast.unstripped > >build/ARM/mem/comm_monitor.fo (symbol from plugin): warning: memset > >used with constant zero length parameter; this could be due to > >transposed parameters > > [ STRIP] ARM/gem5.fast.unstripped -> .fast > > > > > >Thanks > >_______________________________________________ > >gem5-users mailing list > >[email protected] > >http://m5sim.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/gem5-users > > > > > -- IMPORTANT NOTICE: The contents of this email and any attachments are > confidential and may also be privileged. If you are not the intended > recipient, please notify the sender immediately and do not disclose the > contents to any other person, use it for any purpose, or store or copy the > information in any medium. Thank you. > > _______________________________________________ > gem5-users mailing list > [email protected] > http://m5sim.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/gem5-users >
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