On Thu, Apr 29, 2010 at 11:19 AM, Steven Bosscher <stevenb....@gmail.com> wrote: > On Thu, Apr 29, 2010 at 10:57 AM, Richard Guenther > <richard.guent...@gmail.com> wrote: >> Yes - that would be basically a linker plugin without plugin support. >> And I'd go even further and have LD provide a complete symbol >> resolution set like we get from the gold linker-plugin. >> >> That wouldn't help for old or non-gnu LDs of course. > > Right. The way this seems to be going, we're looking at LTO support > for archives only for targets where GNU binutils is used. But what are > the alternatives? You have to somehow know what symbols you want to > extract from an archive, without implementing ld again. > > What would be helpful, is when things get set up in such a way that > binutils ld is just one tool that can give you this resolution file, > but leave the option open to call another tool. That would allow us to > write a special tool for targets without binutils. I'm thinking of > course of my latest pet project, LTO for Mach-O. There is no working > Mach-O linker in binutils (or at least it's not the standard ld) but > it may be possible to just write a separate tool for Mach-O that > generates the resolution file. > > Users would still need to install the extra tool, but at least it > would be possible to make things work.
Indeed. That extra tool is usually collect2 though (so if you can write such tool in a very portable way ...) Richard. > Ciao! > Steven >
