On Thu, Jul 4, 2019 at 10:38 AM Martin Liška <mli...@suse.cz> wrote:
>
> Hi.
>
> Recently I've introduced a new .gnu.lto_.lto section that
> is supposed to provide meta information about a LTO bytecode.
>
> As a further step, I'm planning to teach binutils about
> existence of the section and I'll remove in the future
> emission of __gnu_lto_slim and __gnu_lto_v1 symbols.
> The former one is used by binutils to identify if
> an object is a slim LTO object. The later one is currently
> used only in gcc/collect2.c and was added by David's patch.
>
> My question is: Can we remove __gnu_lto_v1 right now and
> XCOFF will use something similar to ELF (has_lto_section)?
> Can you David help me with that please?

LTO currently does not work on AIX. I added the __gnu_lto_v1 as a
test. You can rip it out and XCOFF will follow a different path when
implementing LTO.

Thanks David

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