Re: [lto] PATCH: Add support for referencing types from function bodies

[Mark Mitchell <mark at codesourcery dot com>]

Daniel Jacobowitz wrote:

> Mark, I don't think you've got a way out of this: if you want ld -r to
> work, you're going to have to process at least some relocations.  You
> can limit the number of relocations by intelligent choices, I expect;
> having one per label could be seriously bad for performance, so maybe
> one per function or something like that.  Basically, replace your
> "section number" by a reference to a label in that section.

OK.  We'll cross that bridge after we make it work without ld -r; it 
will be a relatively minor change on both sides of the interface to 
replace the section number with a label.

Thanks,

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