Information about LTO

Mark Mitchell mark@codesourcery.com
Wed May 9 03:55:00 GMT 2007


Sjodin, Jan wrote:
> I agree. Also, the LTO requirements and high-level design document
> states that the external format should be "compiler-independent" and it
> should be possible for other tools to read and write that format. Is
> this still a goal? 

It was a goal for me, but I don't think other participants were ever as
excited about it.  It's certainly not paramount, and Kenny has shown
that it's probably more practical just to read/write the IL directly.

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