[PATCH] D13958: Mere SHF_STRING

[Hal Finkel via llvm-commits]

----- Original Message -----
> From: "Rafael Espíndola" <rafael.espindola at gmail.com>
> To: "Hal Finkel" <hfinkel at anl.gov>
> Cc: reviews+D13958+public+c36d055d9fd03140 at reviews.llvm.org, "llvm-commits" <llvm-commits at lists.llvm.org>, "Rui
> Ueyama" <ruiu at google.com>
> Sent: Friday, October 23, 2015 4:06:35 PM
> Subject: Re: [PATCH] D13958: Mere SHF_STRING
> 
> On 23 October 2015 at 17:02, Hal Finkel <hfinkel at anl.gov> wrote:
> > Hi Rafael,
> >
> > In my experience, people rarely use linker optimizations that are
> > not on by default. As I recall, nether GCC nor Clang pass -O<n>
> > through to the linker. Is it time to change that?
> 
> Not in this patch :-)

Indeed :-)

> If we want to change that it would be a trivial change to do it in a
> follow up.

Sounds good. I actually don't know much about what the GNU linkers do with -O<n>, but it does seem to make sense, especially in the context of our apparent lld optimization philosophy.

Thanks again,
Hal

> 
> Cheers,
> Rafael
> 

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Hal Finkel
Assistant Computational Scientist
Leadership Computing Facility
Argonne National Laboratory