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Re: [LTO][PATCH] Fix lto input clobbering bug.
I have checked that in already. However, I agree that not generating
assembly output is the right thing. Perhaps we should do what
-fsynatx-only does with -fwpa except for the
analysis/optimisation/codegen.
-Doug
2008/10/28 Diego Novillo <dnovillo@google.com>:
> 2008/10/28 Ollie Wild <aaw@google.com>:
>
>> Wouldn't it be cleaner to just enable -fsyntax-only when -fwpa is
>> specified? That's what Java does when outputting class files. In
>> addition to suppressing as, it redirects the output file to /dev/null.
>
> Perhaps. The problem I see is that -fsyntax-only implies that the
> compiler is not doing any analysis/optimization/codegen, which is not
> the case with -fwpa. Having flag_syntax_only set has other
> side-effects that may get in the way with what we want to do in WPA.
>
> I don't really mind one way or the other.
>
>
> Diego.
>