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Re: Link-time optimzation
Richard Henderson wrote:
In general, I'm going to just collect comments in a folder for a while,
and then try to reply once the dust has settled a bit. I'm interested
in seeing where things go, and my primary interest is in getting *some*
consensus, independent of a particular one.
But, I'll try to answer this:
> In Requirement 4, you say that the function F from input files a.o and
> b.o should still be named F in the output file. Why is this requirement
> more than simply having the debug information reflect that both names
> were originally F? I see you go to some length in section 3 to ensure
> actual symbol table duplicates, and I don't know why.
Our understanding was that the debugger actually uses the symbol table,
in addition to the debugging information, in some cases. (This must be
true when not running with -g, but I thought it was true in other cases
as well.) It might be true for other tools, too.
It's true that, from a correctness or code-generation point of view, it
shouldn't matter, so, for non-GNU assemblers, we could fall back to
F.0/F.1, etc.
> The rest of the requirements look good. I cannot immediately think of
> anything you've forgotten.
Thanks!
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