[PATCH] Document --with-plugin-ld

Rainer Orth ro@CeBiTec.Uni-Bielefeld.DE
Fri Mar 18 11:05:00 GMT 2011


Richard Guenther <rguenther@suse.de> writes:

> --- 1666,1676 ----
>   Enable support for link-time optimization (LTO).  This is enabled by
>   default, and may be disabled using @option{--disable-lto}.
>   
> ! @item --with-plugin-ld=@var{pathname}
> ! Enable an alternate linker to be used at link-time optimization (LTO)
> ! link time when @option{-fuse-linker-plugin} is enabled.
> ! This linker should have plugin support such as gold or GNU ld starting
> ! with version 2.21.  See @option{-fuse-linker-plugin} for details.
>   @end table

While gold already existed in binutils 2.19 (maybe earlier, haven't
checked), plugin support only appeared in 2.20, so the references to
gold should be qualified (also in invoke.texi).

	Rainer

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