Source Code for Profile Guided Code Positioning

[Ian Lance Taylor]

On Tue, Jan 19, 2016 at 11:08 PM, Sriraman Tallam <tmsriram@google.com> wrote:
>
> There is no documentation as such that I am aware of to write a linker
> plugin.  Here is a very brief overview.   The linker calls the
> plugin's "onload" function when registering the plugin and the plugin
> inturn can register two call-backs with the linker, "claim_file_hook"
> and the "all_symbols_read_hook".  "claim_file_hook" is called  for
> each object file that the linker prcesses and the
> "all_symbols_read_hook" is called after all the symbols have been read
> by the linker.  These are just two different interesting points in the
> course of a link.
>
> The plugin can also get handles to linker functions like
> "get_input_section_name" which it can use to process sections given
> their handle. You can also check the gold linker tests for simpler
> plugin examples.

The linker plugin interface is somewhat documented at
https://gcc.gnu.org/wiki/whopr/driver .

Ian