Re: --orphan-handling=warn

[Nick Desaulniers]

On Tue, Feb 25, 2020 at 11:43 AM Kees Cook <keescook@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> On Tue, Feb 25, 2020 at 01:29:51PM -0500, Arvind Sankar wrote:
> > On Mon, Feb 24, 2020 at 09:35:04PM -0800, Kees Cook wrote:
> > > Note that cheating and doing the 1-to-1 mapping by handy with a 40,000
> > > entry linker script ... made ld.lld take about 15 minutes to do the
> > > final link. :(
> >
> > Out of curiosity, how long does ld.bfd take on that linker script :)
>
> A single CPU at 100% for 15 minutes. :)

I can see the implementers of linker script handling thinking "surely
no one would ever have >10k entries." Then we invented things like
-ffunction-sections, -fdata-sections, (per basic block equivalents:
https://reviews.llvm.org/D68049) and then finally FGKASLR. "640k ought
to be enough for anybody" and such.
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Thanks,
~Nick Desaulniers