------- Comment #3 from pinskia at gcc dot gnu dot org 2010-03-31 22:11 ------- Also this change was done to so we would be compliant to the ARM EABI.
http://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc-patches/2009-05/msg01481.html And if the linker is taking a lot of memory, then it is a bug in the linker. The linker should not take much more memory for functions which are linked once. -- http://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=43601
