[LLVMdev] llvm-link deprecated in favor of gold plugin?

[Teresa Johnson]

LTOCodeGenerator is used by the llvm-lto tool, which is a standalone
tool for doing LTO links.

Teresa

On Tue, Feb 10, 2015 at 8:37 AM, Russell Wallace
<russell.wallace at gmail.com> wrote:
> Following on from my last question, based on such information as I've been
> able to find on Google, I get the impression llvm-link is effectively
> deprecated / not actively maintained, because the focus of whole-program
> optimization is now on the gold plugin. Is that the case, or am I missing
> something?
>
> Running searches over the source tree, it seems the Linker class that
> actually implements the functionality of llvm-link is not used by any other
> modules except LTOCodeGenerator. I couldn't find anything referencing
> LTOCodeGenerator. Does the gold plugin or anything else use
> LTOCodeGenerator?
>
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