RFC: Support link with mixed IR/non-IR objects

[Tristan Gingold]

On May 8, 2012, at 10:05 PM, Andi Kleen wrote:

> 
>> Even so, I think I'd lean towards the use of archives.
> 
> ar archives don't work. The linux kernel requires unreferenced objects to
> be included in the build (e.g. for EXPORT_SYMBOL and initcalls)

Many linkers (but not GNU ld) have options to link all archive members.  Not difficult to implement.