Request for testing/help for the LTO branch

[Diego Novillo]

On Wed, Jan 28, 2009 at 08:18, Joseph S. Myers <joseph@codesourcery.com> wrote:

> I would certainly hope both LTO and gold should work on a wide range of
> non-Linux hosts (if anyone cares to contribute patches for such support),
> including non-ELF hosts, even though restricted to ELF targets at least in
> the case of gold.  libelf definitely works on MinGW and Solaris hosts.

I will update the wiki with clarification on this issue.  To reiterate:

- LTO functionality does not depend on the linker.  We only take
advantage of gold and its plugin to pull objects out of .a files.

- LTO does depend on ELF.  It would be nice to support non-ELF targets
but it's not in our immediate plans.


Diego.