Does anyone have any experience with 'cord'?

[David Hinds]

I've been playing around with the cache optimizing procedure rearranging
program 'cord', and have had lots of problems.  I have yet to get it to
terminate successfully.  Firstly, it doesn't seem to work for me when I
link a program with the multi-threaded C library.  It just core dumps
with a segmentation violation.  When I re-linked the same program with
the regular library (the program is set up so it can run single-threaded),
I get lots of cord warnings about 'procedure(s) not found' naming things
in the standard library - several hundred, actually.  Then I get a fatal
error: 'cord: error: cannot write proc bxform'.  This happens at the stage
when cord is trying to 'relocate section .text'.  This procedure isn't
anything special, as far as I can tell.  This is all with the Irix 3.3.1
stuff.

 -David Hinds
  dhinds at cb-iris.stanford.edu