On 4/28/10 10:26 , Manuel López-Ibáñez wrote: >>>> Not yet, I mistakenly thought -fwhole-program is the same as -fwhopr >>>> and it is just for solving scaling issue of large program.(These two >>>> options do look similar :-). I shall try next. >>> >>> Yep, -fwhopr is not ideal name, but I guess there is not much >>> to do about it. > > It is marked as experimental, so if it is going to stay for GCC 4.6, > then we should change the name. I think one possibility discussed > somewhere is that LTO scales back automatically, so the option would > be not necessary.
Yes. I think we should just keep -flto and make it use split compilation if needed. -fwhopr is only needed to explicitly enable it. My suggestion is to just keep -flto and invoke whopr with -flto=split or -flto=big (until the automatic threshold is added). Diego.
