GNU linker on Fedora Core 5 is horribly slow on moderately large C++ projects with debug information. Apparently, this is a known problem. This is frustrating to wait more than one minute for a linkage of a project that normally links n a matter of seconds. Tried to run yum update but that did not solve the problem - and package download was very slow. I watch this PR and wait for the patch.
New glibc 2.4 now has a detection of mulitply freed memory. While this is not a full-blown Purify or my favourite Valgrind but this introduces almost no overhead in runtime and is constantly on. Nice work!
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Submitted by frolov on Wed, 2006-09-13 11:16.
