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Date: Thu, 12 Jun 2008 00:15:00 -0000
From: "Bill Maddox" <maddox@google.com>
To: "Ollie Wild" <aaw@google.com>
Subject: Re: [lto] What is lto_file_vtable for?
Cc: "GCC Development" <gcc@gcc.gnu.org>,         "Kenneth Zadeck" <zadeck@naturalbridge.com>
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On Wed, Jun 11, 2008 at 4:38 PM, Ollie Wild <aaw@google.com> wrote:
> From what I can tell from grepping the lto source, the vtable entry in
> lto_file is set but never used.  Is this old code that never got
> removed or the beginning of an idea that never got implemented?
>
> I'm inclined to remove it if it's not doing anything.

It was needed when the LTO reader had to map DWARF2 sections.
It is obsolete now.

--Bill