On Sun, 15 May 2022, Rui Ueyama wrote: > > Makes sense, but I still don't understand why mold wants to discover in > > advance whether the plugin is going to use get_symbols_v3. How would it > > help with what mold does today to handle the _v2 case? > > Currently, mold restarts itself to reset the internal state of the plugin. > If we know in advance that get_symbols_v3 is supported, we can avoid that > restart. That should make the linker a bit faster. Also, restarting the > linker is a hack, so we want to avoid it if possible.
Can you simply restart the linker on first call to get_symbols_v2 instead? Alexander
