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Re: [lto] What is lto_file_vtable for?
- From: "Bill Maddox" <maddox at google dot com>
- To: "Ollie Wild" <aaw at google dot com>
- Cc: "GCC Development" <gcc at gcc dot gnu dot org>, "Kenneth Zadeck" <zadeck at naturalbridge dot com>
- Date: Wed, 11 Jun 2008 17:14:40 -0700
- Subject: Re: [lto] What is lto_file_vtable for?
- References: <65dd6fd50806111638t7cf6ff28vc8f2cc268b4ecb@mail.gmail.com>
On Wed, Jun 11, 2008 at 4:38 PM, Ollie Wild <aaw@google.com> wrote:
> From what I can tell from grepping the lto source, the vtable entry in
> lto_file is set but never used. Is this old code that never got
> removed or the beginning of an idea that never got implemented?
>
> I'm inclined to remove it if it's not doing anything.
It was needed when the LTO reader had to map DWARF2 sections.
It is obsolete now.
--Bill