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From: Cary Coutant <ccoutant@google.com>
To: Ian Lance Taylor <iant@google.com>
Cc: Yinon Ehrlich <yinon.me@gmail.com>, binutils@sourceware.org
Subject: Re: Work done for Incremental link so far ?
Date: Mon, 14 Feb 2011 19:03:00 -0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <AANLkTikwFJ_nSuO+BoX_T+OxWaXYT2H+eLTguF--uOnK@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <mcrhbc6bjhz.fsf@google.com>

>> Could you please provide me with pointers for starting - what was
>> already implemented, what are the next TODOs, is there any IRC channel
>> to discuss this work and so on...
>
> There is work being done to support incremental linking in the gold
> linker.  Cary Coutant, CC'ed, is doing this work.  I think it's mostly a
> set of patches in his own working directory, though.  There is some
> design discussion at http://gcc.gnu.org/wiki/GoldIncrementalLinking .  I
> don't know how up to date that is.

Yeah, I haven't been sending the patches very regularly, sorry. I'm in
bug-fixing mode right now, and will start feeding patches upstream
shortly, as soon as I get around to doing a git rebase -i to put them
into some semblance of a reasonable order. I did post a set of patches
back in September -- Ian reviewed the first of those and I committed
it, but I'll resubmit the other four.

I need to update the wiki page to reflect the current implementation
-- I've had to add a field to track the section index for global
symbols in relocatable objects, a flag for whether a symbol is defined
or referenced in shared objects, an is_in_system_directory flag for
each input file, and a count of local symbols for each input file.

-cary

  reply	other threads:[~2011-02-14 19:03 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-02-14 14:53 Yinon Ehrlich
2011-02-14 17:42 ` Ian Lance Taylor
2011-02-14 19:03   ` Cary Coutant [this message]
2011-02-17  8:51     ` Yinon Ehrlich

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