[Bug ld/3111] New: LD very slow linking object files containing dwarf2 symbols

[doreille at smr dot ch]

This bug occurs with the binutils-060823 snapshot and  binutils-2.16.91.0.6-5
(fedora-5) on both x86-64 and i386 architectures. It do not occur with
binutils-2.15.94 (fedora-4).

When linking  C++ files compiled by GCC 4.1.1 with the -g option ld take 3
minutes to link . Without the -g option the link time was 5 seconds. The
obtained shared library has 17 MBytes size without debugging symbols and 59
MBytes size with debugging symbols.

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           Summary: LD very slow linking object files containing dwarf2
                    symbols
           Product: binutils
           Version: 2.18 (HEAD)
            Status: NEW
          Severity: normal
          Priority: P2
         Component: ld
        AssignedTo: unassigned at sources dot redhat dot com
        ReportedBy: doreille at smr dot ch
                CC: bug-binutils at gnu dot org,doreille at smr dot ch
  GCC host triplet: x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu


http://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=3111

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