Re: Add gcc-ar, gcc-nm, gcc-ranlib

["H.J. Lu" <hjl dot tools at gmail dot com>]

On Thu, Dec 2, 2010 at 4:10 PM, Dave Korn <dave.korn.cygwin@gmail.com> wrote:
> On 02/12/2010 23:31, H.J. Lu wrote:
>> On Thu, Dec 2, 2010 at 3:44 PM, Dave Korn <dave.korn.cygwin@gmail.com> wrote:
>>> On 02/12/2010 23:09, H.J. Lu wrote:
>>>> On Thu, Dec 2, 2010 at 3:26 PM, Dave Korn wrote:
>>>>> On 02/12/2010 22:35, H.J. Lu wrote:
>>>>>> Hi,
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Here is the new implementation of gcc-ar, gcc-nm, gcc-ranlib.
>>>>>> It doesn't require any new gcc option. ?OK for trunk?
>>>>> ?The documentation isn't very detailed:
>>>>>
>>>>>> +In some cases, you may need to use the @command{gcc-ar},
>>>>>> +@command{gcc-nm} and @command{gcc-ranlib} commands to manage LTO
>>>>>> +object files.
>>>>> ?Can it not say at least a little something about in what cases you may need
>>>>> to use them, and what the difference is between them and the regular binutils?
>>>>>
>>>> Any improvements are more than welcome.
>>> ?I'd happily do so, but I don't know what they're for!
>>>
>>
>> They are used to handle object files with IR:
>
> ?Ah, so the difference is just that they process the LTO symtab, rather than
> the native object format symbols?
>

Yes.  But I think gcc-ar and gcc-ranlib only work on IR-only object files,.



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H.J.