On Sun, Mar 13, 2011 at 11:53:59AM -0700, Ian Lance Taylor wrote:
> Jack Howarth <[email protected]> writes:
>
> > So lto-object.c needs a rewrite to use only a single section for GNU_LTO
> > with subsections.
> > Unfortunately I can't find any documentation for using subsections in
> > mach-o which may imply we will
> > be forced to use an elf container to obtain those, no?
>
> We can format the information in the section any way we like. No reason
> to fix on subsections or on ELF, though both are certainly options. The
> important characteristics are: 1) the Mach-O assembler has to accept it;
> 2) the simple-object interface in libiberty has to read it.
>
> Ian
Ian,
Are there any places in the current gcc sources which would give us examples
of using the simple-object interface of libiberty in a manner similar to what we
need for storing the lto data in the mach-o section? Or perhaps in an older FSF
gcc release?
Jack
