"H.J. Lu" <hjl.to...@gmail.com> writes: > On Wed, Dec 15, 2010 at 5:23 PM, Ian Lance Taylor <i...@google.com> wrote: >> On Thu, Dec 9, 2010 at 6:29 PM, H.J. Lu <hjl.to...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >>> The initial implementation of my proposal is available on hjl/lto-mixed >>> branch at >>> >>> http://git.kernel.org/?p=devel/binutils/hjl/x86.git;a=summary >> >> I don't know how to separate this idea from the other work on that branch. > > It is implemented on top of 2 stage linking infrastructure.
Yes, which makes it hard to separate. The idea is distinct from 2 stage linking, as far as I can tell. I'm sure you saw my alternative proposal to 2 stage linking. > Linker knows nothing about the magic names. > > * Linker action: > o Classify each input object file: > * If there is a ".gnu_object_only" section, it is a mixed object file. > * If there is a IR section, it is an IR object file. > > Linker checks if an object is claimed by the plugin. If yes, > it has an IR section. Otherwise, it has no IR. > > * Otherwise, it is a non-IR object file. Thanks for the clarification. I will try again to understand the proposal. Ian
