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          <th>Bug ID</th>
          <td><a class="bz_bug_link 
          bz_status_NEW "
   title="NEW - LTO doesn't allow optimization by size"
   href="https://bugs.llvm.org/show_bug.cgi?id=38305">38305</a>
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          <th>Summary</th>
          <td>LTO doesn't allow optimization by size
          </td>
        </tr>

        <tr>
          <th>Product</th>
          <td>tools
          </td>
        </tr>

        <tr>
          <th>Version</th>
          <td>trunk
          </td>
        </tr>

        <tr>
          <th>Hardware</th>
          <td>PC
          </td>
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        <tr>
          <th>OS</th>
          <td>Linux
          </td>
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          <th>Status</th>
          <td>NEW
          </td>
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          <th>Severity</th>
          <td>enhancement
          </td>
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          <th>Priority</th>
          <td>P
          </td>
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        <tr>
          <th>Component</th>
          <td>lto
          </td>
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          <th>Assignee</th>
          <td>unassignedbugs@nondot.org
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          <th>Reporter</th>
          <td>mh+llvm@glandium.org
          </td>
        </tr>

        <tr>
          <th>CC</th>
          <td>llvm-bugs@lists.llvm.org
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        <pre>$ clang -fuse-ld=gold -o t main.c -Os -flto=thin
/usr/bin/ld.gold: fatal error: Optimization level must be between 0 and 3
clang: error: linker command failed with exit code 1 (use -v to see invocation)

(Same with -Oz)

The error message is emitted by the llvm plugin, not gold (it's in
tools/lto/lto.cpp).

Interestingly, it fails at another level when using lld:

$ clang -fuse-ld=lld -o t main.c -Os -flto=thin
/usr/lib/llvm-6.0/bin/ld.lld: error: --plugin-opt: number expected, but got 's'
clang: error: linker command failed with exit code 1 (use -v to see invocation)</pre>
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