[whopr] Design/implementation alternatives for the driver and WPA

[Ian Lance Taylor]

Nick Kledzik <kledzik@apple.com> writes:

>> How does the linker tell LTO that a symbol may be inlined, but must
>> also be externally visible?
> The linker just tells LTO which symbols must remain.  The LTO engine
> is free to inline anything that would improve codegen, with the
> exception
> that any weak definition that must remain (preserved) cannot be inlined.

I'll just note that that isn't optimal for ELF when producing an
executable.

Ian