[LLVMdev] strace for whole-program bitcodes

[Nick Lewycky]

zhunan wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I don't think just use gold-plugin even modified is enough for the task
> of building a whole-program bc file.
> 
> When we want to build a whole-program bc file by a general solution(I
> meant that we can use such a method for all kinds of build system),we
> need not only a gold-plugin to do what llvm-ld does,but also some
> mechanisms,not a simple trick to modify the env variables,to run
> ar,ld,ranlib's llvm-counterparts when building.

Binutils 2.20 supports plugins and 'ar' and 'nm' will work with the gold 
plugin. Not sure about ranlib.

Nick