[Bug lto/40790] plugin-api.h unconditionally includes stdint.h

[joseph at codesourcery dot com]

------- Comment #16 from joseph at codesourcery dot com  2009-10-09 14:44 -------
Subject: Re:  plugin-api.h unconditionally includes stdint.h

On Fri, 9 Oct 2009, ro at techfak dot uni-bielefeld dot de wrote:

> > gold supports non-ELF hosts (or will once Andrew Pinski's MinGW host 
> > patches are in), and in due course should support plugins on such hosts.  
> 
> Ok, but only as a cross-linker to ELF targets, I suppose?

Yes.  Non-ELF targets only via converting from ELF to some other format 
after linking (like uClinux targets using FLT, or arm-symbianelf, do right 
now with a separate converter not included in binutils).

(Unlike gold, nothing in the design of LTO strongly links it to ELF; it 
uses ELF as a container for bytecode streams but should be adaptable to be 
able to use other formats - that allow arbitrary user-defined sections - 
as well if someone wishes to do so, and all that should be needed is a 
replacement of lto-elf.c for the other format or a generic version of it 
using BFD.)


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http://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=40790