Linaro Android

Current Android toolchain doesn't enable gold linker

Bug #798160 reported by Jim Huang
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Affects Status Importance Assigned to Milestone
Linaro Android
Fix Released
Medium
Bernhard Rosenkraenzer

Bug Description

While linking large shared libraries such as libwebcore.so, it takes long time to complete because of using old GNU ld. In fact, in AOSP, Google already updated binutils-20100303, which brings better gold linker support. The gold linker is known to speed up linking time.

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Jim Huang (jserv) wrote :

AOSP binutils: http://android.git.kernel.org/?p=toolchain/binutils.git;a=tree

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Zach Pfeffer (pfefferz) wrote :

Jim, would you talk to Michael about this? This may be the only binutil we'd need.

Changed in linaro-android:
status: New → Confirmed
importance: Undecided → Medium
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Jim Huang (jserv) wrote :

Enabling gold is just an option passing to binutils, and we can prepare two linkers for Android.

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Jim Huang (jserv) wrote :

To Zach,
Yes, I will talk to Toolchain WG / linaro-dev after initial experiments.

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Jim Huang (jserv) wrote :
Changed in linaro-android:
status: Confirmed → In Progress
assignee: nobody → Jim Huang (jserv)
Bernhard Rosenkraenzer (berolinux)
Changed in linaro-android:
assignee: Jim Huang (jserv) → Bernhard Rosenkraenzer (berolinux)
status: In Progress → Fix Released
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