Richard Earnshaw writes: > On Wed, 2005-04-27 at 21:55, Andrew Pinski wrote: > > > However, I can always tell when a GCC build has hit the libjava build > > > -- that's when the *whole system* suddenly slows to a crawl. Maybe > > > it comes from doing some processing on 5000 foo.o files all at > > > once... :-( > > > > But that is not GCC fault that binutils cannot handle that load. > > > > -- Pinski > > It's not as simple as just saying "binutils should be able to cope with > any number of objects thrown at it". Part of the problem is that 5000 > object files exceeds the system limits of the host machine (eg command > line length, etc).
If ld can't accept a list of files from a stream but is instead limited by command line length, then that *is* the fault of ld. Andrew.
