Re: GNU Incremental Linking??

David.Monniaux@ens-lyon.fr (David Monniaux)
5 Mar 1997 13:45:44 -0500

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From: David.Monniaux@ens-lyon.fr (David Monniaux)
Newsgroups: comp.compilers
Date: 5 Mar 1997 13:45:44 -0500
Organization: Ecole Normale Superieure de Lyon, France
References: 97-03-017
Keywords: linker

Randall Edick (rre9518@ss5010.ca.boeing.com) wrote:
: Does anyone know if there are plans to implement incremental
: linking in gnu c/c++?
: [Good question. There were some interesting papers a few years back
: reporting extremely fast link turnaround with an incremental linker at
: the cost of what was then a lot of memory. Considering how our
: opinions of what's a lot of memory have changed, it should be worth
: another look. -John]


A fact that you may not be aware of: SunSoft ships an incremental
linker (ild) for use with its C / Fortran / Pascal development
systems. It's used by default when you ask for debug info (thus
meaning you don't want a definite version). I have never quite used
it, and I know its automatic use when using debug mode puzzled friends
of mine (some messages would appear every 4 compiles or so... :-) ).


Thus incremental linking is now in the industrial mainstream.


My two cents.
David


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