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Re: Can LTO minor version be updated in backward compatible way ?
On Wed, Jul 17, 2019 at 7:30 PM Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com> wrote:
>
> Romain Geissler <romain.geissler@amadeus.com> writes:
> >
> > I have no idea of the LTO format and if indeed it can easily be updated
> > in a backward compatible way. But I would say it would be nice if it
> > could, and would allow adoption for projects spread on many teams
> > depending on each others and unable to re-build everything at each
> > toolchain update.
>
> Right now any change to an compiler option breaks the LTO format
> in subtle ways.
Indeed - that one is quite awkward. I wonder if we could try mitigating
that by streaming some hash in front of the actual data for optimization/target
nodes we can verify is correct. Such change would be local to
optc-save-gen.awk and materialize in cl_*_stream_{in,out}.
I think that's the only place where streaming is auto-generated.
Richard.
> In fact even the minor changes that are currently
> done are not frequent enough to catch all such cases.
>
> So it's unlikely to really work.
>
> -Andi
>