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Re: Dropping support of repo files (tlink)

From: Iain Sandoe <idsandoe at googlemail dot com>
To: Martin Liška <mliska at suse dot cz>
Cc: GCC Development <gcc at gcc dot gnu dot org>, Jan Hubicka <hubicka at ucw dot cz>, David Edelsohn <dje dot gcc at gmail dot com>
Date: Thu, 20 Jun 2019 15:27:08 +0100
Subject: Re: Dropping support of repo files (tlink)
References: <7ff58510-a641-4a33-be20-28118d3b0ee5@suse.cz> <CAGWvnykMCYOaY3gSGUt1BFJp-ybU9sJ463KiU4Zzysg5V-tcGw@mail.gmail.com>

> On 20 Jun 2019, at 15:21, David Edelsohn <dje.gcc@gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> On Thu, Jun 20, 2019 at 10:05 AM Martin Liška <mliska@suse.cz> wrote:
>> 
>> Hi.
>> 
>> In order to not buffer stderr output in LTO mode, I would like to remove
>> support for repo files (tlink). If I'm correctly it's only used by AIX
>> target. Would it be possible to drop that for the future? Is it even
>> used?
> 
> AIX currently does not support GCC LTO, but the hope was that GCC
> would not do anything to specifically inhibit that ability to
> eventually support that feature. AIX currently needs collect2.  I
> guess that AIX could try to find another mechanism when it adds
> support.

Darwin needs collect2,  but does not use the tlink facility.
thanks
Iain

References:
- Dropping support of repo files (tlink)
  - From: Martin Liška
- Re: Dropping support of repo files (tlink)
  - From: David Edelsohn

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