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From: Dave Korn <dave.korn.cygwin@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: PATCH: 2 stage BFD linker for LTO plugin
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On 06/12/2010 17:44, H.J. Lu wrote:
> On Mon, Dec 6, 2010 at 9:23 AM, Dave Korn <dave.korn.cygwin@gmail.com> wrote:
>>  Well, I reckon this patch is great (but don't have the approval rights).
>> It's passed an lto-bootstrap of gcc on i686-pc-cygwin and the tests are well
>> underway without anything abnormal showing up.
>>
> 
> Can we close
> 
> http://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=42690
> 
> as invalid

  It's not invalid; GOLD linking with -static (explicit or implicit) would
still have problems without the pass through.

> and point the linker bug to
> 
> http://www.sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=12248

  I added a reference to it to the gcc PR and closed it.

    cheers,
      DaveK