------- Additional Comments From dcoutts at gentoo dot org 2006-03-17 00:46 ------- I tried using the 'S' modifier which did make adding archive members faster (by not building the symbol index). However it also missed members out for some reason which I have not figured out yet.
Further tests revel that it is most likely that it is the ranlib / ar s part that is taking so long. I wrote a little program (100loc) to create GNU ar archives without the symbol table (which unsprisingly is very quick). Then running ranlib on this archive still took 500Mb for a short time near the end of the run. 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. -- 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
