Re: reducing ld's memory footprint (19 minutes of linking)
Re: reducing ld's memory footprint (19 minutes of linking)
- Subject: Re: reducing ld's memory footprint (19 minutes of linking)
- From: Finlay Dobbie <email@hidden>
- Date: Thu, 11 Aug 2005 21:24:30 +0100
On 11/08/05, Stefan Werner <email@hidden> wrote:
>
> > Date: Thu, 11 Aug 2005 07:55:40 +0100
> > From: jkp <email@hidden>
> > Subject: Re: reducing ld's memory footprint (19 minutes of linking)
> >
> > Wasn't the original question about slow linking? If so, the problem
> > does indeed lie with the GNU tools, and not XCode. XCode _is_ the
> > IDE, the GNU tools are responsible for compilation and linking and as
> > the previous poster pointed out, these can be slow in any incarnation.
>
> Duh...you do realize that I explicitly wrote "ld" in the subject and
> not Xcode? We all agree that the gnu tools that are part of the Xcode
> IDE (hint: What does the i in IDE stand for?) are problem here.
Firstly, Darwin's ld isn't a GNU tool:
spiffy:~ finlay$ ld -v
Apple Computer, Inc. version cctools-590.obj~12
Secondly, Apple is responsible for the compiler toolchain which they
supply with the Xcode Tools. They have their own gcc, for example,
which they are responsible for and has Apple-specific extensions.
-- Finlay
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