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Re: [LTO merge][12/15] Add linker plugin
>> +bin_PROGRAMS = ltosymtab
>
> If you put a program in bindir it is a public interface to GCC. ÂWhat does
> it do? ÂHow and when should GCC users use it? ÂThese things need
> documenting in the GCC manual. ÂIt needs to support --help and --version
> following the GNU Coding Standards and using ACX_PKGVERSION and
> ACX_BUGURL. ÂIf it's not a public interface - if it's used internally by
> other programs - put it in GCC's libexecsubdir and you don't need to care
> about these issues.
For this particular case I think we should just remove ltosymtab. It
was used to print the IL symbol table, but is completely redundant now
that nm and ar can use plugins.
I should have removed it when I added plugins to bfd. Sorry about that.
> --
> Joseph S. Myers
> joseph@codesourcery.com
>
Cheers,
--
Rafael Ãvila de EspÃndola