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Re: [wwwdocs] gcc-4.9/changes.html: Mention that LTO now generates slim objects
- From: Gerald Pfeifer <gerald at pfeifer dot com>
- To: Tobias Burnus <tobias dot burnus at physik dot fu-berlin dot de>
- Cc: Richard Biener <rguenther at suse dot de>, gcc-patches at gcc dot gnu dot org, Jan Hubicka <hubicka at ucw dot cz>
- Date: Sat, 28 Jun 2014 14:38:49 +0200 (CEST)
- Subject: Re: [wwwdocs] gcc-4.9/changes.html: Mention that LTO now generates slim objects
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- References: <20140321091612 dot GA22982 at physik dot fu-berlin dot de> <alpine dot LSU dot 2 dot 11 dot 1403211036320 dot 6041 at zhemvz dot fhfr dot qr> <20140321124601 dot GA12455 at physik dot fu-berlin dot de>
On Fri, 21 Mar 2014, Tobias Burnus wrote:
> Thanks for the suggestions - updated patch below.
Here are two small tweaks I just committed on top of this.
Index: changes.html
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RCS file: /cvs/gcc/wwwdocs/htdocs/gcc-4.9/changes.html,v
retrieving revision 1.71
retrieving revision 1.72
diff -u -r1.71 -r1.72
--- changes.html 11 Jun 2014 18:49:26 -0000 1.71
+++ changes.html 28 Jun 2014 12:37:43 -0000 1.72
@@ -80,13 +80,13 @@
overall memory usage at link time.</li>
<li>C++ hidden keyed methods can now be optimized out.</li>
<li>When using a linker plugin, compiling with the <code>-flto</code>
- option now generates slim objects files (<code>.o</code>) which only
+ option now generates slim object files (<code>.o</code>) which only
contain intermediate language representation for LTO. Use
<code>-ffat-lto-objects</code> to create files which contain
additionally the object code. To generate static libraries suitable
for LTO processing, use <code>gcc-ar</code> and
<code>gcc-ranlib</code>; to list symbols from a slim object file use
- <code>gcc-nm</code>. (Requires that <code>ar</code>,
+ <code>gcc-nm</code>. (This requires that <code>ar</code>,
<code>ranlib</code> and <code>nm</code> have been compiled with
plugin support.)</li>
</ul>