Re: [gentoo-dev] Developers, please work on underlinking issues!

[Lars Wendler <polynomial-c@gentoo.org>]

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On Thu, 18 Aug 2016 13:43:42 +0300 Andrew Savchenko wrote:

>Hi,
>
>On Wed, 17 Aug 2016 22:37:42 +0200 Michał Górny wrote:
>[...]
>> That said, I'd really like for Gentoo to be able to finally switch to
>> ld.gold by default.  
>
>It still has problems with kernel or kernel modules here and there.
>
>Also from my experience gold demands more memory on linking large
>binaries, thus it it unsuitable for low-memory setups.
>
>While gold indeed has its benefits, it is still too immature to
>become system default.

And as long as I keep reading such statements I won't use ld.gold
anywhere on my (dev-)systems. A linker IMHO is a far too crucial
toolchain component to blindly play around with.

>Best regards,
>Andrew Savchenko

Cheers
Lars

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