From:	sos AT prospect DOT com DOT ru (Sergey Okhapkin)
Subject:	RE: what can link.exe do that cygwin32-ld can't ?
14 Jul 1997 00:55:40 -0700 :
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Ian Lance Taylor wrote:
>    and if so, does this fix makeing .reloc dll's & exe's
>    with B18?
>
> Doesn't that have more to do with running ld and dlltool multiple
> times?

Three-pass linking is very slow :-( For example, while building cygwin.dll 
with full debug info, every ld pass tooks more than 1 minute on my P133/32M 
NT4.0. The ld.exe process takes about 10M memory while running! It's 
difficult to debug the stuff with long build times...

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