On Mon, Dec 6, 2010 at 3:54 PM, Ian Lance Taylor <i...@google.com> wrote: > Alan Modra <amo...@gmail.com> writes: > >> On Mon, Dec 06, 2010 at 09:57:14AM -0800, H.J. Lu wrote: >>> Personally, I think 2 stage linking is one way to fix this issue. >> >> Ian has stated that he thinks this is a really bad idea. I haven't >> approved the patch because I value Ian's opinion, and can see why he >> thinks it is the wrong way to go. On the other hand, BFD is full of >> bad ideas.. I'm not strongly opposed to your patch myself. > > Why don't we spend a short amount of time fixing these relatively minor > issues in lto-plugin without going all the way to two-stage linking?
The issues may be "relatively minor". But proper fix without two-stage linking may be quite tricky. > Both Cary and I made several suggestions for how to do this. Fixing all known/unknown issues may not be easy without two-stage linking. With two-stage linking, everything just works. -- H.J.
