serviceability agent : problems when using gcc LTO (link time optimization)

Erik Joelsson erik.joelsson at oracle.com
Wed Jan 15 15:47:57 UTC 2020


On 2020-01-15 07:29, Volker Simonis wrote:
> Do you know if newer versions of GCC use the gold linker by default? I
> remember from some experiments which I did many years ago that gold was
> considerably faster compared to the default ld linker.

The default linker is system configured so it depends on your Linux 
distro. The devkits generated by the current devkit makefiles configures 
gold as default.

/Erik




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