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| author | Ian Lance Taylor <ian@airs.com> | 2009-02-28 18:08:30 +0000 |
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| committer | Ian Lance Taylor <ian@airs.com> | 2009-02-28 18:08:30 +0000 |
| commit | 14359ca0dc033417af8fdf0fe5e3d68913e97197 (patch) | |
| tree | 062c6a79eb76f1a18b3f0f2a9c25b78e506afc01 /gold/README | |
| parent | b4ecf66bbe002c85155bb538a781b2b0b10d44fd (diff) | |
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* README: --gc-sections and map files are now supported. Document
some build requirements.
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diff --git a/gold/README b/gold/README index 49de60a..8891d62 100644 --- a/gold/README +++ b/gold/README @@ -17,9 +17,7 @@ omissions--features of the GNU linker not currently supported in gold--are: * MEMORY regions in linker scripts * MRI compatible linker scripts - * linker map files (-M, -Map) * cross-reference reports (--cref) - * linker garbage collection (--gc-sections) * position independent executables (-pie) * various other minor options @@ -51,3 +49,16 @@ of work. Task objects are stored on a single Workqueue object. Tasks communicate via Task_token objects. Task_token objects are only manipulated while holding the master Workqueue lock. Relatively few mutexes are used. + + +Build requirements +================== + +The gold source code uses templates heavily. Building it requires a +recent version of g++. g++ 4.0.3 is known to work. g++ 3.2 and g++ +3.4.3 are known to fail. + +The linker script parser uses features which are only in newer +versions of bison. bison 2.3 is known to work. bison 1.26 is known +to fail. If you are building gold from an official binutils release, +the bison output should already be included. |