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Re: [PATCH] Use GCC LTO wrapper to get real symbols from LTO IR objects

From: Michael Matz <matz at suse dot de>
To: "H.J. Lu" <hjl dot tools at gmail dot com>
Cc: Alan Modra <amodra at gmail dot com>, Binutils <binutils at sourceware dot org>
Date: Tue, 11 Feb 2020 16:07:16 +0000 (UTC)
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Use GCC LTO wrapper to get real symbols from LTO IR objects
References: <20200210142435.397899-1-hjl.tools@gmail.com> <CAMe9rOoSuEbOPxZ0jDgE9kWgQOEkS4fozOKCboQEXB-u6B19Qg@mail.gmail.com> <20200210230156.GR5669@bubble.grove.modra.org> <CAMe9rOpbKj=0eEckg-ugTahfU9+13HFbK4=JhCKGSY27-xzNrA@mail.gmail.com>

Hi,

On Mon, 10 Feb 2020, H.J. Lu wrote:

> > Wow, that's a lot of work to get proper symbol type.  What happens if
> 
> Very true.  I couldn't come up with a better solution without changing 
> plugin API.

Then, it should perhaps be changed?  The cure without that (i.e. your 
patch) looks worse than the disease (temporary files, hardcoding path 
layouts, dependence on gcc installed) :-/

I know why you wrote the patch as is, but ... ugh.

Ciao,
Michael.

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- Re: [PATCH] Use GCC LTO wrapper to get real symbols from LTO IR objects
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- Re: [PATCH] Use GCC LTO wrapper to get real symbols from LTO IR objects
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