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Re: PATCH: Add check_lto_available
- From: "H.J. Lu" <hjl dot tools at gmail dot com>
- To: Richard Earnshaw <rearnsha at arm dot com>
- Cc: Binutils <binutils at sourceware dot org>
- Date: Fri, 11 Oct 2013 10:09:43 -0700
- Subject: Re: PATCH: Add check_lto_available
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- References: <20121207175814 dot GC13783 at intel dot com> <5257F0CE dot 1030804 at arm dot com>
On Fri, Oct 11, 2013 at 5:36 AM, Richard Earnshaw <rearnsha@arm.com> wrote:
> HJ,
>
> Why does this patch try to produce a shared object as part of
> determining whether LTO works? If you have LTO but not shared object
> support in a toolchain this means we don't test LTO properly.
>
LTO tests also check if shared library works correctly with LTO.
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H.J.