[PATCH] D38808: [CMake] Improve logic for enabling LTO on LLVM itself

[Mehdi AMINI via llvm-commits]

Oh right I totally missed that it would be using MSVC as a host compiler to
build LLVM, I somehow misread the context and thought there was a mode
where clang would generate LTO files consumed by MSVC.

-- 
Mehdi


2017-10-11 21:32 GMT-07:00 Zachary Turner <zturner at google.com>:

> Microsoft visual c++?
>
> It’s basically the same idea, although they call it LTCG, and the idea
> here is just that we need to pass different flags to msvc than we do to
> other compilers
> On Wed, Oct 11, 2017 at 8:37 PM Mehdi AMINI via Phabricator <
> reviews at reviews.llvm.org> wrote:
>
>> mehdi_amini added inline comments.
>>
>>
>> ================
>> Comment at: llvm/cmake/modules/HandleLLVMOptions.cmake:771
>> +# Sets the output parameter style to one of the following values:
>> +#   thin, none, msvc, full
>> +# If the function returns (e.g. there is no fatal error), the output
>> parameter
>> ----------------
>> What is "msvc"? (pointer to another doc accepted :))
>>
>>
>> https://reviews.llvm.org/D38808
>>
>>
>>
>>
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