"ld -r" on mixed IR/non-IR objects (

[H. Peter Anvin]

On 12/08/2010 01:19 AM, Andi Kleen wrote:
>>
>> Quite possibly a better way to deal with that is to provide a mechanism
>> for encapsulating arbitrary binary code objects inside the LTO IR.
> 
> Then you would need to teach your assembler and everything
> else that may generate ELF objects to generate this magic object. But why
> not just ELF directly? that is what it is after all.
> 

No.  You just need to teach the linker to generate it when you're doing
a ld -r on mixed objects.

	-hpa

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