optlink on multicore machines

[David B. Held]

Walter Bright wrote:
> Bill Baxter wrote:
>> It works fine for me most of the time, but hangs about 1 out of 20
>> links or so.  Not insurmountable for a 1-link project.  But I can see
>> how that ain't going to take you far if you're running a test suite
>> with >> 20 programs that must be linked back-to-back.
> 
> 
> The test suite does thousands of links. It doesn't get further than a 
> dozen or two into it before it fails. I suppose that could explain why 
> it seems to work.

I did notice that the linker seemed to hang randomly.  Glad it isn't 
just me.

Dave