http://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=47247
--- Comment #20 from ccoutant at google dot com 2011-02-16 23:35:28 UTC --- > I have created a "small" test of the symbol table problem. It is in > > http://people.mozilla.com/~respindola/test.tar.xz > > The test is firefox's libxul with most files copied into one directory to make > it easy to run. The test script runs the link twice. First with the IL files > and then with combined .o file. > > The sizes are > > 39339456 libxul1.so > 34436696 libxul2.so > For a 5 MB reduction I might end up writing a wrapper that runs ld twice :-) That 5MB difference is all due to the dynamic symbol table? I think we can fix that in gold. : ) -cary
