[PATCH, bootstrap]: Add bootstrap-lto-noplugin build configuration (PR65537)
Gerald Pfeifer
gerald@pfeifer.com
Wed Apr 8 12:13:00 GMT 2015
On Mon, 6 Apr 2015, Sandra Loosemore wrote:
> s/frontend/front end/ ??
>
> (Since we have "middle end" and "back end" on the previous line.)
Absolutely -- I should have caught this. Is also is in line with
https://gcc.gnu.org/codingconventions.html.
Here is the updated patch I just committed.
2015-04-08 Gerald Pfeifer <gerald@pfeifer.com>
* doc/install.texi (bootstrap-lto-noplugin): Rewrite.
Index: doc/install.texi
===================================================================
--- doc/install.texi (revision 221916)
+++ doc/install.texi (working copy)
@@ -2525,10 +2525,10 @@
@item @samp{bootstrap-lto-noplugin}
This option is similar to @code{bootstrap-lto}, but is intended for
-hosts that do not support the linker plugin. Please note that static
-libraries are not compiled with link time optimizations without
-linker plugin. Since GCC middle-end and back-end are in libbackend.a,
-it means that only part of the frontend is actually LTO optimized.
+hosts that do not support the linker plugin. Without the linker plugin
+static libraries are not compiled with link-time optimizations. Since
+the GCC middle end and back end are in @file{libbackend.a} this means
+that only the front end is actually LTO optimized.
@item @samp{bootstrap-debug}
Verifies that the compiler generates the same executable code, whether
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