On Fri, Apr 9, 2010 at 04:21, Richard Guenther <rguent...@suse.de> wrote:
> Well, but it's pretty much deep-rooted into the LTO design as we use > collect2 and/or gold to do symbol resolution which of course needs > object code. I can imagine we can nuke the collect2 stuff looking > at symbols, but the linker plugin code just aint going to work > without object code. Hm? The gold plugin only needs to know about symbols and types, which are fed from LTO sections directly. I don't think anything is taken from the assembly sections of the object file. At least, that is the intent. There may be implementation issues atm, but in theory it should be possible to generate IL sections only. Diego.
