Request for testing/help for the LTO branch

Diego Novillo dnovillo@google.com
Wed Jan 28 13:36:00 GMT 2009


On Wed, Jan 28, 2009 at 08:18, Rainer Orth <ro@techfak.uni-bielefeld.de> wrote:

> But at least on Solaris, using GNU ld is sort of a problem: there are lots
> of GCC testsuite regressions right now, and GNU ld doesn't support several
> of Sun ld's advanced features, which is why I very much prefer to use the
> native linker if at all possible.

Sorry, when I said 'GNU ld', I really meant 'any ld'.  It should work
with *any* linker.  The basic IL detection mechanism and lto1
launching is done in collect2.  We don't rely on any linker feature to
do the work.


Diego.



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