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Re: [lto][RFC] Do not emit hybrid object files
On Fri, Oct 17, 2008 at 15:40, Ollie Wild <aaw@google.com> wrote:
> On Fri, Oct 17, 2008 at 12:32 PM, Diego Novillo <dnovillo@google.com> wrote:
>>
>> lto1 (even if -flto is not provided) and eventually we'll need to
>> support archives in the reader.
>
> Will we? I thought one of the main justifications for implementing a
> plugin architecture in the linker was to avoid having to do this in
> collect2.
Well, it will likely be needed to support GNU ld. I'm assuming that
not everyone will use gold. Likewise, support for non-ELF
architectures may need to be added at some point.
Diego.