From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 25229 invoked by alias); 27 Apr 2002 18:02:22 -0000 Mailing-List: contact binutils-help@sources.redhat.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: binutils-owner@sources.redhat.com Received: (qmail 25213 invoked from network); 27 Apr 2002 18:02:19 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO itdomain003.itdomain.net.au) (203.63.157.208) by sources.redhat.com with SMTP; 27 Apr 2002 18:02:19 -0000 content-class: urn:content-classes:message Subject: RE: ordinal linking for cygwin ld MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Date: Sat, 27 Apr 2002 11:02:00 -0000 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft Exchange V6.0.5762.3 Message-ID: X-MS-Has-Attach: X-MS-TNEF-Correlator: From: "Robert Collins" To: "Ralf Habacker" , "Charles Wilson" Cc: "Kde-Cygwin" , "Binutils" , "Cygwin-Apps" X-SW-Source: 2002-04/txt/msg00489.txt.bz2 > -----Original Message----- > From: Ralf Habacker [mailto:Ralf.Habacker@freenet.de]=20 > Sent: Saturday, April 27, 2002 10:17 PM > To: Robert Collins; Charles Wilson > Cc: Kde-Cygwin; Binutils; Cygwin-Apps > Subject: RE: ordinal linking for cygwin ld >=20 >=20 > >A patch to use hint ordinals when linking by name would be _very_=20 > >useful though, as that would > >a) give the performance benefit you are looking for > >b) allow backward compatible library versioning as link-by-name does. >=20 > But as I stated already, this needs an ld switch to=20 > enable/disable ordinal linking and allow limiting of used libs or path Hangon, lets go back a bit. Why do you want ordinal-only linking? For runtime or link-time performance? Or for on-disk import library size? Or.... Rob