Questions about IPA/clones and new LTO pass

[Jeff Law]

On Mon, 2019-12-09 at 17:59 -0500, Erick Ochoa wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> this is an update on the LTO pass we've been working on. The
> optimization is called ipa-initcall-cp because it propagates constant
> values written to variables with static lifetimes (such as ones
> initialized in initialization functions).
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Just a note, I suspect most of the development community is currently
focused on stage3 bugfixing rather than new code development.  So
replies may be limited.

Jan Hubicka is probably the best person to answer your questions, but
others may be able to do so as well.

jeff