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Re: metaquestion
- From: Alan Modra <amodra at bigpond dot net dot au>
- To: Paul Theodoropoulos <paul at anastrophe dot com>
- Cc: binutils at sources dot redhat dot com
- Date: Mon, 31 Mar 2003 10:26:14 +0930
- Subject: Re: metaquestion
- References: <5.2.1.1.2.20030330111215.00bc43f0@imap.anastrophe.com>
On Sun, Mar 30, 2003 at 12:03:41PM -0800, Paul Theodoropoulos wrote:
> aside from probably wasting some free time, did anything of any value take
> place here? did anything truly get 'optimized' or function more efficiently
> after this little recursion of builds?
Possibly. gcc's configure detects features of gas and ld, and enables
certain optimizations depending on whether the needed binutils support
is available. If you had kept the configure output, you could probably
see which extra features you get with binutils-2.13.
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Alan Modra
IBM OzLabs - Linux Technology Centre