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From: irf@kuling.UUCP (Bo Thide')
Newsgroups: comp.sys.hp
Subject: HP-UX `ld' tricks.
Message-ID: <1783@kuling.UUCP>
Date: 4 Nov 90 17:16:21 GMT
Organization: DoCS, Uppsala University, Sweden
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I am trying to speed up my linking and have played around with
the HP-UX 7.0 `ld' options "-X" and "-A". 
Questions:

1. The "-X <num>" option allows you to define the initial size for the linker's
   global symbol table.  This will reduce link time for very large
   programs.  Is there a clever way to set  <num> to maximize the speed-up?

2. The "-A name" option specifies incremental loading.  How would I
   use that in a makefile?  Are there any special "ld -A" tricks used
   by the HP-UX masters out there?

Bo