On Wed, Dec 1, 2010 at 12:37 PM, Ian Lance Taylor <i...@google.com> wrote: > "H.J. Lu" <hjl.to...@gmail.com> writes: > >> We don't want to put all unclaimed files passed to plugin back to linker. >> On Linux, >> >> [...@gnu-6 gcc-lto]$ cat /usr/lib/libc.so >> /* GNU ld script >> Use the shared library, but some functions are only in >> the static library, so try that secondarily. */ >> OUTPUT_FORMAT(elf32-i386) >> GROUP ( /lib/libc.so.6 /usr/lib/libc_nonshared.a AS_NEEDED ( >> /lib/ld-linux.so.2 ) ) >> [...@gnu-6 gcc-lto]$ >> >> Linker should use /usr/lib/libc.so, not /lib/libc.so.6, >> /usr/lib/libc_nonshared.a, >> /lib/ld-linux.so.2, for final linker. With the new cmdline field, >> plugin can only pass >> those unclaimed files from linker command line back to linker for the >> final link. > > Thanks, at least now I understand what the new field means: it is true > for a file explicitly named on the command line, false for a file named > in a linker script. > > Are you planning to have the plugin claim all files, even linker > scripts, and then pass only the command line files back to the linker? >
Plugin will keep the same claim strategy. For those aren't claimed by plugin, plugin will save and pass them back to linker only if they are specified at command line. -- H.J.
