Masahiro Yamada's on January 14, 2019 1:27 pm: > The symbol table in the final archive is unneeded because it is passed > to the linker after the --whole-archive option. Every object file in > the archive is included in the link anyway. > > Pass thin archives from subdirectories directly to the linker, and > remove the final archiving step.
This seems like a good improvement. As far as I remember, it was slower to do the final link without the index built. Maybe I was testing it in a revision before moving those files into --whole-archive? If there is no slowdown, then I have no objection. Acked-by: Nicholas Piggin <npig...@gmail.com>