From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 14485 invoked by alias); 14 Feb 2011 17:42:47 -0000 Received: (qmail 14476 invoked by uid 22791); 14 Feb 2011 17:42:46 -0000 X-SWARE-Spam-Status: No, hits=-2.3 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,DKIM_SIGNED,DKIM_VALID,DKIM_VALID_AU,SPF_HELO_PASS,T_RP_MATCHES_RCVD X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Received: from smtp-out.google.com (HELO smtp-out.google.com) (216.239.44.51) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.43rc1) with ESMTP; Mon, 14 Feb 2011 17:42:41 +0000 Received: from kpbe20.cbf.corp.google.com (kpbe20.cbf.corp.google.com [172.25.105.84]) by smtp-out.google.com with ESMTP id p1EHgcET015576 for ; Mon, 14 Feb 2011 09:42:38 -0800 Received: from yxe42 (yxe42.prod.google.com [10.190.2.42]) by kpbe20.cbf.corp.google.com with ESMTP id p1EHgPaD015199 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=RC4-SHA bits=128 verify=NOT) for ; Mon, 14 Feb 2011 09:42:37 -0800 Received: by yxe42 with SMTP id 42so2662490yxe.23 for ; Mon, 14 Feb 2011 09:42:37 -0800 (PST) Received: by 10.42.4.145 with SMTP id 17mr4034178ics.335.1297705356275; Mon, 14 Feb 2011 09:42:36 -0800 (PST) Received: from coign.google.com ([216.239.45.130]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id gy41sm2837570ibb.11.2011.02.14.09.42.34 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=OTHER); Mon, 14 Feb 2011 09:42:35 -0800 (PST) From: Ian Lance Taylor To: Yinon Ehrlich Cc: binutils@sourceware.org, ccoutant@google.com Subject: Re: Work done for Incremental link so far ? References: <4D5941F4.2070507@gmail.com> Date: Mon, 14 Feb 2011 17:42:00 -0000 In-Reply-To: <4D5941F4.2070507@gmail.com> (Yinon Ehrlich's message of "Mon, 14 Feb 2011 16:53:40 +0200") Message-ID: User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.1 (gnu/linux) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-System-Of-Record: true X-IsSubscribed: yes Mailing-List: contact binutils-help@sourceware.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: binutils-owner@sourceware.org X-SW-Source: 2011-02/txt/msg00143.txt.bz2 Yinon Ehrlich writes: > I want to contribute to ld's incremental link feature. > > I looked in the mailing list' archives and saw that a lot of work was > already done, but cannot find out what exactly. > > 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. I'm not aware of any work on incremental linking in the GNU linker. Ian