Er, I did notice one other issue besides the unusual behavior of -A. It seems the Digital Mars linker has a deadlock issue when run on multiprocessor machines. Every once in a while (perhaps 1 link out of 20), the linker simply hangs and makes no progress. I've left the linker running sometimes 15 minutes before breaking out (where normally the link takes 3 seconds).

My test box is a 2 CPU Xeon Pentium III. I've not tested on a uniprocessor box, but I do suspect a race condition somewhere due to the non-deterministic behavior I'm seeing.

It's not a problem that can't be worked around, although it is annoying having to break the link and restart.

Has anyone else seen this behavior?

Thanks,
/Michael

"Michael" <Michael_member@pathlink.com> wrote in message news:c42uhl$1kun$1@digitaldaemon.com...
> Er, I did notice one other issue besides the unusual behavior of -A. It
seems
> the Digital Mars linker has a deadlock issue when run on multiprocessor machines. Every once in a while (perhaps 1 link out of 20), the linker
simply
> hangs and makes no progress. I've left the linker running sometimes 15
minutes
> before breaking out (where normally the link takes 3 seconds).
>
> My test box is a 2 CPU Xeon Pentium III. I've not tested on a uniprocessor
box,
> but I do suspect a race condition somewhere due to the non-deterministic behavior I'm seeing.
>
> It's not a problem that can't be worked around, although it is annoying
having
> to break the link and restart.
>
> Has anyone else seen this behavior?

Yes, it's a known bug.