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From: "H.J. Lu" <hjl.tools@gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 11 Feb 2020 17:04:00 -0000
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Subject: Re: [PATCH] Use GCC LTO wrapper to get real symbols from LTO IR objects
To: Michael Matz <matz@suse.de>
Cc: Alan Modra <amodra@gmail.com>, Binutils <binutils@sourceware.org>
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On Tue, Feb 11, 2020 at 8:07 AM Michael Matz <matz@suse.de> wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> On Mon, 10 Feb 2020, H.J. Lu wrote:
>
> > > Wow, that's a lot of work to get proper symbol type.  What happens if
> >
> > Very true.  I couldn't come up with a better solution without changing
> > plugin API.
>
> Then, it should perhaps be changed?  The cure without that (i.e. your
> patch) looks worse than the disease (temporary files, hardcoding path
> layouts, dependence on gcc installed) :-/
>
> I know why you wrote the patch as is, but ... ugh.

I think plugin API should be extended.  In the meantime, we have a problem
to solve.

-- 
H.J.