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Re: Request for testing/help for the LTO branch
Diego Novillo writes:
> On Wed, Jan 28, 2009 at 08:18, Rainer Orth <ro@techfak.uni-bielefeld.de> wrote:
>
> > But at least on Solaris, using GNU ld is sort of a problem: there are lots
> > of GCC testsuite regressions right now, and GNU ld doesn't support several
> > of Sun ld's advanced features, which is why I very much prefer to use the
> > native linker if at all possible.
>
> Sorry, when I said 'GNU ld', I really meant 'any ld'. It should work
> with *any* linker. The basic IL detection mechanism and lto1
> launching is done in collect2. We don't rely on any linker feature to
> do the work.
Great to hear: I'll just give it a try on Solaris and IRIX and report what
I find.
Thanks.
Rainer
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Rainer Orth, Faculty of Technology, Bielefeld University