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Re: [PATCH] Document --with-plugin-ld
On Fri, 18 Mar 2011, Rainer Orth wrote:
> Richard Guenther <rguenther@suse.de> writes:
>
> > --- 1666,1676 ----
> > Enable support for link-time optimization (LTO). This is enabled by
> > default, and may be disabled using @option{--disable-lto}.
> >
> > ! @item --with-plugin-ld=@var{pathname}
> > ! Enable an alternate linker to be used at link-time optimization (LTO)
> > ! link time when @option{-fuse-linker-plugin} is enabled.
> > ! This linker should have plugin support such as gold or GNU ld starting
> > ! with version 2.21. See @option{-fuse-linker-plugin} for details.
> > @end table
>
> While gold already existed in binutils 2.19 (maybe earlier, haven't
> checked), plugin support only appeared in 2.20, so the references to
> gold should be qualified (also in invoke.texi).
Committed with that change.
Richard.