On 10/12/05, Diego Novillo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Monday 10 October 2005 19:25, Steve Ellcey wrote: > > > Could we just have -fwrite-ipo create a '.o' file that contains the > > intermediate representation (instead of being a real object file). > > > > Then when the linker is called it would call the compiler with all the > > files that have intermediate code instead of object code and finish up > > the compilation. Actually, maybe we could add the restriction that > > you have to use GCC to call the linker when doing IPO and that way > > GCC could finish up the compilations before it calls the linker. > > > That's the model I'm used to, so I would prefer this approach.
That is why I used name "glo" to mean gnu linktime optimizer or something like that. I was raising the issue of whether cc1*, in middle of a compilation, is expected to read other compilation unit's IL from disk or not. This decision has big influence on the form of IL being written/read. - Devang
