From: Rainer Orth <ro@CeBiTec.Uni-Bielefeld.DE>
To: Iain Buclaw <ibuclaw@gdcproject.org>
Cc: gcc-patches@gcc.gnu.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] libphobos: Allow building libphobos using Solaris/x86 assembler
Date: Tue, 05 Jan 2021 22:57:12 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <yddble3f3nr.fsf@CeBiTec.Uni-Bielefeld.DE> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20210105214349.3401864-1-ibuclaw@gdcproject.org> (Iain Buclaw's message of "Tue, 5 Jan 2021 22:43:49 +0100")
Hi Iain,
> This patch removes the disabling of libphobos when the Solaris/x86
> assembler is being used.
>
> Since r11-6373, D symbols are now compressed using back references, this
> helped reduce the average symbol length by a factor of about 3, while
> the longest symbol shrank from 416133 to 1142 characters. So the issues
> that were seen on Solaris/x86 should no longer be a problem.
>
> However, I have only used x86_64-apple-darwin10 for testing, as
> libphobos couldn't be built on that target for the same reason, except
> it was the system linker segfaulting due to long symbol names.
>
> It would be good to know if Solaris has also benefitted from the change.
great, thanks. I'll give this a whirl once today's regular bootstraps
have finished.
Rainer
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Rainer Orth, Center for Biotechnology, Bielefeld University
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Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2021-01-05 21:43 Iain Buclaw
2021-01-05 21:57 ` Rainer Orth [this message]
2021-01-06 13:57 ` Rainer Orth
2021-01-07 16:11 ` Iain Buclaw
2021-01-07 16:17 ` Rainer Orth
2021-01-07 17:48 ` Iain Buclaw
2021-01-11 16:46 ` Iain Buclaw
2021-01-12 14:54 ` Rainer Orth
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