Re: [lto][patch] Add a program to read IL symbol tables

["Rafael Espindola" <espindola at google dot com>]

> I do not understand why you think this should be a target rather than a
> host module.  LTO makes perfect sense for a cross compiler - the compiler,
> linker and presumably plug-in run on the host, while the target may be
> bare-metal with no OS and incapable of running any of them.

I just got confused. The attached patch builds it on host. What is the
correct way to build it only if lto is being built? config-lang.in has
no host_libs.

> The plug-in should also share the same logic for finding libelf that
> gcc/configure.ac has - allowing for possible different names for the
> libelf header, and, should a --with-libelf option be added in future as
> per <http://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc/2007-09/msg00117.html>, honouring that.
> Thus I recommend putting that logic in a shared macro in config/, and
> making sure the C sources allow for the different header names.

Will work on that.

> --
> Joseph S. Myers
> joseph@codesourcery.com
>


Cheers,
-- 
Rafael Avila de Espindola

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