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Re: Target support needed for LTO
Hi Dave,
On 14 December 2010 15:48, Dave Korn <dave.korn.cygwin@gmail.com> wrote:
> ?This symptom usually means that the assembler is padding the section
> containing the compressed data when it generates the IR-containing .o file.
> There is no record within the compressed data stream of how long it is
> supposed to be(*), so LTO assumes that the /entire/ contents of the section
> represents compressed data and feeds it to the decompressor. ?If there are a
> few trailing bytes of zeroes, they get fed to the decompressor as well and it
> gets confused and complains.
Although this wasn't exactly the issue, it pointed me in the right
direction and I found a bug in my assembler that mangled some end of
sections... Thanks a lot!
Fred