[llvm-commits] [PATCH] Preparation for Optimal Edge Profiling: Build libprofile as bytecode.

[Daniel Dunbar]

On Mon, Aug 24, 2009 at 12:06 PM, Andreas
Neustifter<e0325716 at student.tuwien.ac.at> wrote:
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> Hi Daniel,
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> Daniel Dunbar wrote:
>> Hi Andreas,
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>> The exported change is fine, but I don't think MODULE_NAME is
>> necessary. libprofile_rt.bca (a bitcode archive) is already getting
>> built, isn't that good enough?
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> I used that for bytecode linking of the whole module, there its not
> possible to use the libprofile_rt.bca. But its also possible to link the
> libprofile_rt.so instead later on. I will commit only the symbol export.

I still don't understand, it should always be possible to link using a
.bca in any place that linking a .bc would work. What is the situation
where this fails?

 - Daniel