Re: [PATCH,RFC] collect2 LTO for AIX

2019-07-05 Thread David Edelsohn
On Thu, Jul 4, 2019 at 11:43 AM Martin Liška wrote: > > On 7/4/19 5:03 PM, David Edelsohn wrote: > > On Thu, Jul 4, 2019 at 10:38 AM Martin Liška wrote: > >> > >> Hi. > >> > >> Recently I've introduced a new .gnu.lto_.lto section that > >> is supposed to provide meta information about a LTO bytec

Re: [PATCH,RFC] collect2 LTO for AIX

2019-07-04 Thread Martin Liška
On 7/4/19 5:03 PM, David Edelsohn wrote: > On Thu, Jul 4, 2019 at 10:38 AM Martin Liška 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 >>

Re: [PATCH,RFC] collect2 LTO for AIX

2019-07-04 Thread David Edelsohn
On Thu, Jul 4, 2019 at 10:38 AM Martin Liška 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 fu

Re: [PATCH,RFC] collect2 LTO for AIX

2019-07-04 Thread Martin Liška
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 forme

Re: [PATCH,RFC] collect2 LTO for AIX

2017-11-06 Thread David Edelsohn
On Mon, Nov 6, 2017 at 11:01 AM, Jim Wilson wrote: > On 10/31/2017 12:11 PM, David Edelsohn wrote: >> >> With your recent removal of SDB and -gcoff support, I would appreciate >> your advice about my patch to incrementally add some preliminary LTO >> support for AIX to collect2.c: >> >> https://gc

Re: [PATCH,RFC] collect2 LTO for AIX

2017-11-06 Thread Jim Wilson
On 10/31/2017 12:11 PM, David Edelsohn wrote: With your recent removal of SDB and -gcoff support, I would appreciate your advice about my patch to incrementally add some preliminary LTO support for AIX to collect2.c: https://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc-patches/2017-10/msg00893.html There don't seem to b

Re: [PATCH,RFC] collect2 LTO for AIX

2017-11-01 Thread Jim Wilson
On 10/31/2017 12:11 PM, David Edelsohn wrote: With your recent removal of SDB and -gcoff support, I would appreciate your advice about my patch to incrementally add some preliminary LTO support for AIX to collect2.c: OK. I can take a look. I started a new job this week, so I'm a bit disorgan

Re: [PATCH,RFC] collect2 LTO for AIX

2017-11-01 Thread Jim Wilson
On 10/30/2017 12:13 PM, Jeff Law wrote: On 10/13/2017 12:04 PM, David Edelsohn wrote: This patch adds the basic LTO scanning pass to the COFF support in collect2. I don't believe that this change should affect other COFF targets adversely (do they even use collect2?), but I wanted to give peopl

Re: [PATCH,RFC] collect2 LTO for AIX

2017-10-31 Thread David Edelsohn
On Mon, Oct 30, 2017 at 3:13 PM, Jeff Law wrote: > On 10/13/2017 12:04 PM, David Edelsohn wrote: >> The attached patch is an incremental step toward GCC LTO on AIX. The >> recent Libiberty Simple Object improvements for XCOFF provide more >> capabilities for operations on XCOFF object files, whic

Re: [PATCH,RFC] collect2 LTO for AIX

2017-10-30 Thread Jeff Law
On 10/13/2017 12:04 PM, David Edelsohn wrote: > The attached patch is an incremental step toward GCC LTO on AIX. The > recent Libiberty Simple Object improvements for XCOFF provide more > capabilities for operations on XCOFF object files, which are a > prerequisite for GCC LTO functionality. > >