[PATCH v3 2/4] ld: Document mixing IR and non-IR objects for -r

[Sam James]

"H.J. Lu" <hjl.tools@gmail.com> writes:

> On Sun, Jan 12, 2025 at 4:16 PM Andreas Schwab <schwab@linux-m68k.org> wrote:
>>
>> On Jan 12 2025, H.J. Lu wrote:
>>
>> > +On ELF platforms, when the relocatable output contains both IR and
>> > +non-IR contents, a .gnu_object_only section will be created to contain
>>
>> Whatis IR?
>>
>
> How about this?
>
> On ELF platforms, when the relocatable output contains both contents
> which require link-time optimization (LTO) and contents which don't
> require LTO, a .gnu_object_only section will be created to contain a
> relocatable object file, as if @samp{-r} is applied to all relocatable
> inputs which don't require LTO.  When processing a relocatable input
> with a .gnu_object_only section, the linker will extract the
> .gnu_object_only section as a separate input.

That reads well to me. Maybe we should include a reference to
-ffat-lto-objects.