On Fri, Apr 29, 2005 at 08:54:00PM -0400, Ian Lance Taylor wrote: > Joe Buck <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > I think you need to talk to the binutils people. It should be possible > > to make ar and ld more memory-efficient. > > And here I thought I had dug myself out of that swamp several years > ago. I once spent a month making the linker more memory efficient, > including adding the --no-keep-memory option, so that it would work on > the FSF's clunky old HP300 systems.
Yes, Richard mentioned that option. Next step is to use it in gcc builds and see if it helps. I've seen claims that Darwin's linker is much more efficient than the GNU linker, though I haven't confirmed this.
