[lto] PATCH: Skeleton LTO front end

Paolo Bonzini paolo.bonzini@lu.unisi.ch
Tue Jun 13 07:24:00 GMT 2006


Mark Mitchell wrote:
> This patch creates the LTO front end -- which does absolutely nothing
> of any interest at this point.  This is just a skeleton.
> 
> The next steps will be:
> 
> 1. Basic command-line processing so that we can specify the object
>    files to read/optimize.
> 
> 2. Locate DWARF information in ELF files.  (Presumably, this will be
>    extended to other object formats later.)
> 
> 3. Create a tree -- of some kind -- from the stored DWARF information.

I think it would be cool if this skeleton went to the wiki as the 
"skeleton for a front-end".

Anybody would like to do this?

Paolo



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