> On Wed, May 26, 2010 at 5:53 PM, Bingfeng Mei <b...@broadcom.com> wrote: > > Hi, Richard, > > With resolution file generated by GOLD (or I am going to hack gnu LD), is > > externally_visible attribute still needed to annotate those symbols accessed > > from non-LTO objects when compiling with -fwhole-program. > > Yes it is. We do not parse the complete resolution file but only the > entries we'll end up reading .o files with LTO information for. > > > In theory, it shouldn't be needed since LTO has all information. But what > > about current implementation. I checked relevant source files and can't > > get immediate clue. > > The current implementation has no idea of the external references > (though it's probably not too hard to implement).
Yep, this is also one of my TODO list items... Honza > > Richard.
