[cfe-dev] ld linker freezes my computer

[Mark Wagner]

On Mon, Oct 15, 2012 at 1:08 PM, Andrew Pennebaker
<andrew.pennebaker at gmail.com> wrote:
> 3. The computer freezes up.
>
>	$ make
>	clang -c -o hello.o -arch i386 hello.s
>	ld -o hello -macosx_version_min 10.6 hello.o
>	(frozen)
>
> Attempts to stop the linker with Control+C, quitting Terminal.app, Force
> Quit Applications, and Activity Monitor fail, as the system becomes too slow
> to process user input.

Just to verify, the computer does not actually freeze up, it just
slows to the point of unusability?  This is an important distinction
to make, because the two situations have very different causes and
very different solutions.

-- 
Mark Wagner