[lto] PATCH: Locate DWARF information in ELF files

[Andrew Pinski]

On Jun 18, 2006, at 1:25 PM, Mark Mitchell wrote:

>
> This patch makes the LTO front end open ELF files and locate the DWARF
> sections required for building LTO information.  The ELF-specific bits
> are segreated into a separate file so that platforms using other
> object file formats can be supported in future.  We will probably also
> need some autoconf bits to detect libelf; for now, we'll just assume
> its available.

Isn't libelf not part of the GNU project?  Even some GNU/Linux does not
include libelf by default.  Why not use BFD to read the dwarf2 info  
instead?

-- Pinski