Comments on: Gold Released

By: teideal glic deisbhÃ©alach » Blog Archive » What to expect from the new binutils linker

Tue, 25 Mar 2008 05:07:08 +0000

[...] I’ve been following Ian Lance Taylor’s updates on the status of gold, the new binutils linker, for a while, so when he announced that he’d added it to the binutils tree, I decided to make a little time to try it out. [...]

By: Ian Lance Taylor

Ian Lance Taylor — Mon, 24 Mar 2008 23:39:16 +0000

Joe: thanks for the note–glad it’s working for you.

ncm: gcc does not need to know that it is talking to gold. gold is a drop-in replacement. (The FC8 gcc does pass a –build-id option which gold doesn’t recognize–I’m working on that one).

By: ncm

ncm — Mon, 24 Mar 2008 20:22:33 +0000

Congratulations! Many complain, but few fix.

Quick lazyweb question: does gcc need to know that it’s talking to gold (e.g. configure option when building gcc) or can I just “mv gold /usr/bin/ld” and go?

By: Joe Buck

Joe Buck — Mon, 24 Mar 2008 16:35:31 +0000

I’ve just tried out gold on a couple of medium-to-large C++ executables and a shared library. It’s a very fast drop-in replacement. Thanks! I’ll be using it immediately to speed up the build/debug/fix/rebuild cycle that I live in these days.

By: Ian Lance Taylor

Ian Lance Taylor — Sat, 22 Mar 2008 17:52:37 +0000

Thanks!

By: tromey

tromey — Sat, 22 Mar 2008 15:01:52 +0000

Congratulations!

BTW I skimmed bits of the code and I would like to say — excellent job. I wish all the GNU tools were written this way.