[PATCH] Deprecate -frepo option.

[Iain Sandoe]

> On 27 Jun 2019, at 19:21, Jan Hubicka <hubicka@ucw.cz> wrote:
> 
>> 
>> It's useful on targets without COMDAT support.  Are there any such
>> that we care about at this point?
>> 
>> If the problem is the combination with LTO, why not just prohibit that?
> 
> The problem is that at the collect2 time we want to decide whether to
> hold stderr/stdout of the linker. The issue is that we do not know yet
> if we are going to LTO (because that is decided by linker plugin) or
> whether we do repo files (because we look for those only after linker
> failure).

you could pre-scan for LTO, as is done for the collect2+non-plugin linker.
(similar to the comment below, that would take some time, but probably
small c.f the actual link).
Iain

> We can look for repo files first but that could take some time
> especially for large programs (probably not too bad compared to actual
> linking later) or we may require -frepo to be passed to collect2.
> 
> Honza
>> 
>> Jason