Re: [PATCH 1/5] kbuild: allow architectures to use thin archives instead of ld -r

[Date Prev][Date Next][Thread Prev][Thread Next][Date Index][Thread Index]

 



Hi Sam,

On Sat, 6 Aug 2016 22:10:45 +0200 Sam Ravnborg <sam@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> Did you by any chance evalue the use of INPUT in linker files.
> Stephen back then (again based on proposal from Alan Modra),
> also made an implementation using INPUT.

The problem with that idea was that (at least for some versions of
binutils in use at the time) we hit a static limit to the number of
object files and ld just stopped at that point. :-(

> See below for an updated simple patch on top of mainline.

So, I guess it was fixed, but do we know in what version?

-- 
Cheers,
Stephen Rothwell
--
To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-arch" in
the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
More majordomo info at  http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html



[Index of Archives]     [Linux Kernel]     [Kernel Newbies]     [x86 Platform Driver]     [Netdev]     [Linux Wireless]     [Netfilter]     [Bugtraq]     [Linux Filesystems]     [Yosemite Discussion]     [MIPS Linux]     [ARM Linux]     [Linux Security]     [Linux RAID]     [Samba]     [Device Mapper]

  Powered by Linux