[hjl/lto-mixed] PATCH: Remove IRONLY_SUFFIX

H.J. Lu hjl.tools@gmail.com
Thu Jan 13 02:56:00 GMT 2011


On Wed, Jan 12, 2011 at 6:57 PM, Dave Korn <dave.korn.cygwin@gmail.com> wrote:
> On 11/01/2011 18:27, H.J. Lu wrote:
>> Hi Dave,
>>
>> I don't believe IRONLY_SUFFIX is needed for 2 stage linker.  Will it
>> cause any problems on Windows for you?
>
>  No, it's not the name of any real file after all, and there's nothing
> special about it for Windows.  (It was at times a useful diagnostic to know
> whether an error arose in the original file or the replacement bfd by looking
> at the filename in the error message, but other than that the only purpose it
> served is subsumed in your new BFD_PLUGIN_DUMMY flag.)
>

Thanks.  It is on hjl/lto-mixed branch now.

-- 
H.J.



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