On Thu, 2005-04-28 at 14:35, Andrew Haley wrote: > 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.
A certain proverb relating to bad workmen and tools springs to mind here. I think we really need to consider whether requiring ld to support linking of 5000 object files might mean poor library design. R.
