[rfc][gold plugin] Fix pr19901
Robinson, Paul
Paul_Robinson at playstation.sony.com
Tue Aug 12 14:21:00 PDT 2014
Hope I'm not digressing too much (let me know) but...
> I'm very sympathetic to the idea of not fixing libLTO and letting it rot
> (oops, I meant to say letting Apple maintain it for ld64), though not doing
> that would make ultimately make libLTO stronger. I'm calling this out as a
> deliberate choice we have to make, we can either push libLTO to being well
> enough designed to handle linkers with very different plugin ideologies (and
> thus useful for others), or we can consign it to being an ld64 feature. If
> gold can't use libLTO because its interface is too limiting, it's likely lld
> won't either, that any third party linkers won't, etc.
Uh... what? We're actively pursuing LTO with our own linker, using (pretty
sure) libLTO.
Or has my irony/dry-wit filter failed again...
--paulr
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