LTO and LTO Plugin Reviewers

[Basile STARYNKEVITCH]

Diego Novillo wrote:
> On Wed, Oct 7, 2009 at 10:10, Basile STARYNKEVITCH
> <basile@starynkevitch.net> wrote:
> 
>> Then I would imagine it requires a copyright transfer to FSF different of
>> the one covering GCC development. The legal document covering my
>> contribution cites specifically GCC (not binutils).
>>
>> Getting that copyright transfer signed by my employer was so painful that I
>> would never go thru that again :-( :-(
>>
>> But then, I would imagine that LTO plugins only discussion should go to a
>> binutils or a gold list [which I don't subscribe to], not a gcc one!
> 
> What are you talking about?

on a recent gcc trunk rev 152527
     grep -rn dlopen |  fgrep .c:
gives
gcc/plugin.c:418:  dl_handle = dlopen (plugin->full_name, RTLD_NOW 
RTLD_GLOBAL);
lto-plugin/lto-symtab.c:140:  plugin_handle = dlopen (name, RTLD_LAZY);
and other occurrences java or mudflap related

I suppose LTO plugins means plugin dlopen-ed in lto-plugin/lto-symtab.c

Are these inside the cc1 process? is GGC (that is gengtype GTY-ed 
garbage collection) usable from them?

[my blind guess is no to both questions!]

Regards.
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