[PATCH] LTO: introduce object file-based on-disk module format.

[Rafael Espíndola]

>> BTW, gcc has both thin and fat files and a GO frontend. Do you know
>> what do they do about the GO metadata when building with thin files in
>> LTO?
>
> It looks like thin LTO files are also object files, but they omit the object
> code (similar to this proposal). So the object files contain only .go_export
> and the GCC LTO sections.

BTW, what will be producing these files with .go_export and llvm IR?
Is in a new GO FE?

Cheers,
Rafael