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Re: PATCH: 2 stage BFD linker for LTO plugin

Alan Modra <amodra@gmail.com> writes:

> On Mon, Dec 06, 2010 at 09:57:14AM -0800, H.J. Lu wrote:
>> Personally, I think 2 stage linking is one way to fix this issue.
>
> Ian has stated that he thinks this is a really bad idea.  I haven't
> approved the patch because I value Ian's opinion, and can see why he
> thinks it is the wrong way to go.  On the other hand, BFD is full of
> bad ideas..  I'm not strongly opposed to your patch myself.

Why don't we spend a short amount of time fixing these relatively minor
issues in lto-plugin without going all the way to two-stage linking?
Both Cary and I made several suggestions for how to do this.

Ian
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