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. I'm concerned that this idea appears to deeply embeds knowledge about LTO into the linker proper. One of the goals of the plugin approach was to have a clean separation, to give us more flexibility going forward. I say "appears to" because I'm not sure I entirely understand the proposal. The text is rather sketchy and I haven't seen the patch. For example, I think it would be a mistake for the linker to know the magic names that we currently use for LTO sections, and it would definitely be a mistake for the linker to know anything about the format of the data they contain. Ian
