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

[Tristan Gingold]

On May 10, 2012, at 1:47 AM, Andi Kleen wrote:

> On Wed, May 09, 2012 at 03:05:58PM +0200, Tristan Gingold wrote:
>> 
>> 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.
> 
> We cannot force all the Linux users to update their binutils.
> So would need a solution that works with old binutils.
> 
> Do you have one?

This one might be a possible one, as it is already implemented in binutils (--whole-archive as Ian told)