This bug occurs with the binutils-060823 snapshot and binutils-2.16.91.0.6-5 (fedora-5) on both x86-64 and i386 architectures. It do not occur with binutils-2.15.94 (fedora-4).
When linking C++ files compiled by GCC 4.1.1 with the -g option ld take 3 minutes to link . Without the -g option the link time was 5 seconds. The obtained shared library has 17 MBytes size without debugging symbols and 59 MBytes size with debugging symbols. -- Summary: LD very slow linking object files containing dwarf2 symbols Product: binutils Version: 2.18 (HEAD) Status: NEW Severity: normal Priority: P2 Component: ld AssignedTo: unassigned at sources dot redhat dot com ReportedBy: doreille at smr dot ch CC: bug-binutils at gnu dot org,doreille at smr dot ch GCC host triplet: x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu http://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=3111 ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug, or are watching someone who is. _______________________________________________ bug-binutils mailing list bug-binutils@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-binutils