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Date: Tue, 11 Feb 2020 16:07:00 -0000
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
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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.