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Re: [lto][patch] Add initial gold plugin
- From: "Andrew Pinski" <pinskia at gmail dot com>
- To: "Rafael Espindola" <espindola at google dot com>
- Cc: "Joseph S. Myers" <joseph at codesourcery dot com>, gcc-patches <gcc-patches at gcc dot gnu dot org>, "Cary Coutant" <ccoutant at google dot com>, "Diego Novillo" <dnovillo at google dot com>
- Date: Wed, 17 Dec 2008 15:03:08 -0800
- Subject: Re: [lto][patch] Add initial gold plugin
- References: <38a0d8450808270339p3054cacbq9265a0168e1afd78@mail.gmail.com> <Pine.LNX.4.64.0808272007310.23732@digraph.polyomino.org.uk> <38a0d8450808280215l5e58d9ccpa01c0c0b8fba1e4e@mail.gmail.com>
On Thu, Aug 28, 2008 at 1:15 AM, Rafael Espindola <espindola@google.com> wrote:
>> Since you are making other use of libtool here, I suggest using its
>> support for dynamic loading (with libltdl when necessary) rather than
>> hardcoding -ldl and so restricting the supported hosts arbitrarily. (I
>> have not looked at the details of how or why -ldl is being used.)
>
> This is a lto plugin for Gold. I don't think using -ldl is limiting
> the supported platforms. I can change that in the future, but get it
> working is a bigger priority.
More to the point, there could be Windows cross compilers that could
target elf targets. Think embedded targets where many people use
windows as the host machine.
Thanks,
Andrew Pinski