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From: Michael Matz <matz@suse.de>
To: "H.J. Lu" <hjl.tools@gmail.com>
Cc: Alan Modra <amodra@gmail.com>, Binutils <binutils@sourceware.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Use GCC LTO wrapper to get real symbols from LTO IR objects
Date: Tue, 11 Feb 2020 16:07:00 -0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <alpine.LSU.2.21.2002111604240.25090@wotan.suse.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAMe9rOpbKj=0eEckg-ugTahfU9+13HFbK4=JhCKGSY27-xzNrA@mail.gmail.com>

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.


Ciao,
Michael.

  parent reply	other threads:[~2020-02-11 16:07 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2020-02-10 14:24 H.J. Lu
2020-02-10 21:31 ` H.J. Lu
2020-02-10 23:02   ` Alan Modra
2020-02-11  1:23     ` H.J. Lu
2020-02-11  2:31       ` Alan Modra
2020-02-11 12:21         ` H.J. Lu
2020-02-11 22:05           ` [PATCH] Plugin: Treat each object as independent H.J. Lu
2020-02-11 22:22             ` Alan Modra
2020-02-11 16:07       ` Michael Matz [this message]
2020-02-11 17:04         ` [PATCH] Use GCC LTO wrapper to get real symbols from LTO IR objects H.J. Lu
2020-02-13  8:15           ` Alan Modra
2020-03-10 14:55       ` Richard Biener

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