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

[H.J. Lu]

On Sun, Jan 12, 2025 at 5:03 PM Sam James <sam@gentoo.org> wrote:
>
> "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.

I am trying to avoid compiler options in the linker manual.

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H.J.