------- Additional Comments From drow at false dot org 2006-03-17 03:18 ------- Subject: Re: "ar q" gives quadratic memory use
On Fri, Mar 17, 2006 at 12:46:53AM -0000, dcoutts at gentoo dot org wrote: > This problem with ranlib/ar memory consumption is made worse by the fact that > we > have to use xargs and invoke ar multiple times if we have a large number of > archive members. This is of course because of restrictions on the size of > command line arguments. When using "... | xargs ar q libfoo.a" we end up > re-generating the symbol index multiple times (eg about 10 for the ghc > libHSbase.a case). If ar supported -input then this would be better. Recent versions support @file for this situation. I don't know if this was in the last release - I don't think so. -- http://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=2467 ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug, or are watching someone who is. _______________________________________________ bug-binutils mailing list bug-binutils@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-binutils
