Discussion about merging Go frontend

[Ian Lance Taylor]

Dave Korn <dave.korn.cygwin@gmail.com> writes:

> On 30/10/2010 19:24, Richard Henderson wrote:
>> On 10/30/2010 11:37 AM, Dave Korn wrote:
>>>> Uh, really?  I thought there were like a half-dozen lto sections...
>>>   Which we iterate over just once, and record them all in a hash table from
>>> the per-section callback, unless I've missed something.
>> 
>> Oh, right.  Nevermind then.
>> 
>> 
>> r~
>
>   It'd be worth putting a warning comment on the find_section (no "s")
> function saying that it's pretty inefficient and that it is best practice to
> call find_sections just once and record details rather than make multiple
> calls to find_section.  (Both lto FE and lto-plugin are already architected
> that way.)
>
>     cheers,
>       DaveK

I added a sentence "Note that calling this multiple times is
inefficient; use objfile_find_sections instead."

I added the function because it's what the gccgo frontend needs: it only
needs to find one section.

Ian