Re: PATCH: 2 stage BFD linker for LTO plugin

[Ian Lance Taylor <iant at google dot com>]

"H.J. Lu" <hjl.tools@gmail.com> writes:

> On Mon, Dec 6, 2010 at 3:54 PM, Ian Lance Taylor <iant@google.com> wrote:
>> 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. ÂI haven't
>>> approved the patch because I value Ian's opinion, and can see why he
>>> thinks it is the wrong way to go. ÂOn the other hand, BFD is full of
>>> bad ideas.. ÂI'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?
>
> The issues may be "relatively minor".  But proper fix without
> two-stage linking may be quite tricky.

I see no particular reason why that should be the case.  The issues are
conceptually simple.

Ian