[patch] Drop support for dematerializing

[Philip Reames via llvm-commits]

Thanks for the explanation.

Philip

On 12/16/2015 05:51 AM, Rafael Espíndola wrote:
> On 15 December 2015 at 19:38, Philip Reames <listmail at philipreames.com> wrote:
>> Can you give a bit more context on why this is dead?  I don't have a lot of
>> context on the linker and would like to understand the use case.  Are we
>> sure this won't be useful to the thin-LTO effort?
> The linker destroys the source. It just moved the body from the source
> function to the destination function. Dematerializing the source now
> will do nothing since there is no body to unload.
>
> Cheers,
> Rafael