On 6/20/19 9:53 PM, Richard Biener wrote:
> On June 20, 2019 5:09:55 PM GMT+02:00, "Martin Liška" <mli...@suse.cz> wrote:
>> On 6/20/19 4:21 PM, David Edelsohn wrote:
>>> On Thu, Jun 20, 2019 at 10:05 AM Martin Liška <mli...@suse.cz> wrote:
>>>>
>>>> Hi.
>>>>
>>>> In order to not buffer stderr output in LTO mode, I would like to
>> remove
>>>> support for repo files (tlink). If I'm correctly it's only used by
>> AIX
>>>> target. Would it be possible to drop that for the future? Is it even
>>>> used?
>>>
>>> AIX currently does not support GCC LTO, but the hope was that GCC
>>> would not do anything to specifically inhibit that ability to
>>> eventually support that feature. AIX currently needs collect2.  I
>>> guess that AIX could try to find another mechanism when it adds
>>> support.
>>
>> Yes, I'm fine with collect2. I'm more precisely asking about
>> read_report_files
>> that lives in tlink.c. If I understand correctly, it's parsing output
>> of linker
>> and tries to find template implementations in a .rpo files that live on
>> a disk.
>> That's a legacy functionality that I'm targeting to remove.
> 
> IIRC -frepo also works on Linux?

Heh, you are right ;). Is there are consumer of that infrastructure
or can we just drop it?

Martin

> 
> Richard. 
> 
>> Thanks,
>> Martin
>>
>>>
>>> Thanks, David
>>>
> 

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