On Thu, 8 Apr 2010, Jan Hubicka wrote: > :) We need debug info and hammer out all bugs of course! I would also like to > see possiblity to LTO bootstrap without gold and possibility to not generate > assembly into LTO .o files. In the typical use where one builds app with LTO > (such as bootstrap) this just slow down everything approximately twice that is > IMO silly.
Well, but it's pretty much deep-rooted into the LTO design as we use collect2 and/or gold to do symbol resolution which of course needs object code. I can imagine we can nuke the collect2 stuff looking at symbols, but the linker plugin code just aint going to work without object code. Richard.