Re: [fpc-devel] Internal linker question

2010-08-17 Thread Sven Barth
Am 12.08.2010 09:13, schrieb Graeme Geldenhuys: Hi, [...just curious...] As far as I understand, the Windows version of FPC has an internal linker which greatly improved the speed of building/linking software on that platform. Why doesn't the Linux version of FPC (or any other platform for tha

Re: [fpc-devel] Internal linker question

2010-08-12 Thread David W Noon
On Thu, 12 Aug 2010 10:59:45 +0200, Jonas Maebe wrote about Re: [fpc-devel] Internal linker question: > > On 12 Aug 2010, at 09:20, Florian Klaempfl wrote: > > > Because nobody wrote one yet. But: the gnu elf linker is faster > > than the > > gnu windows coff linker

Re: [fpc-devel] Internal linker question

2010-08-12 Thread Jonas Maebe
On 12 Aug 2010, at 09:20, Florian Klaempfl wrote: Because nobody wrote one yet. But: the gnu elf linker is faster than the gnu windows coff linker so the gain and motiviation is less to write an internal elf linker. The GNU binutils also have a (relatively) new ELF x86 linker (gold) the

Re: [fpc-devel] Internal linker question

2010-08-12 Thread Jeppe Johansen
Graeme Geldenhuys skrev: Why doesn't the Linux version of FPC (or any other platform for that matter) have it's own internal linker? Is it simply because nobody wrote it yet, or is there some other technical reason for not doing it? I have made part of an ELF internal linker. The main hurdle is

Re: [fpc-devel] Internal linker question

2010-08-12 Thread Jonas Maebe
On 12 Aug 2010, at 09:27, Paul Ishenin wrote: Dmitry has written an osx linker as I remember (or maybe only internal assember?). Only an internal assembler. Jonas ___ fpc-devel maillist - fpc-devel@lists.freepascal.org http://lists.freepascal.o

Re: [fpc-devel] Internal linker question

2010-08-12 Thread Paul Ishenin
12.08.2010 15:13, Graeme Geldenhuys wrote: Why doesn't the Linux version of FPC (or any other platform for that matter) have it's own internal linker? Is it simply because nobody wrote it yet, or is there some other technical reason for not doing it? Dmitry has written an osx linker as I remem

Re: [fpc-devel] Internal linker question

2010-08-12 Thread Florian Klaempfl
Am 12.08.2010 09:13, schrieb Graeme Geldenhuys: > Hi, > > [...just curious...] > > As far as I understand, the Windows version of FPC has an internal linker > which greatly improved the speed of building/linking software on that > platform. Yes. > > Why doesn't the Linux version of FPC (or an

[fpc-devel] Internal linker question

2010-08-12 Thread Graeme Geldenhuys
Hi, [...just curious...] As far as I understand, the Windows version of FPC has an internal linker which greatly improved the speed of building/linking software on that platform. Why doesn't the Linux version of FPC (or any other platform for that matter) have it's own internal linker? Is it sim