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From: Richard Guenther <richard.guenther@gmail.com>
To: Bingfeng Mei <bmei@broadcom.com>
Cc: "gcc@gcc.gnu.org" <gcc@gcc.gnu.org>
Subject: Re: externally_visible and resoultion file
Date: Wed, 26 May 2010 16:19:00 -0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <AANLkTimYbuzLlapl78bxFsRaj93klV8_cAzJLhPCKPcS@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <7FB04A5C213E9943A72EE127DB74F0ADA6666C4CB4@SJEXCHCCR02.corp.ad.broadcom.com>

On Wed, May 26, 2010 at 5:53 PM, Bingfeng Mei <bmei@broadcom.com> wrote:
> Hi, Richard,
> With resolution file generated by GOLD (or I am going to hack gnu LD),  is
> externally_visible attribute still needed to annotate those symbols accessed
> from non-LTO objects when compiling with -fwhole-program.

Yes it is.  We do not parse the complete resolution file but only the
entries we'll end up reading .o files with LTO information for.

> In theory, it shouldn't be needed since LTO has all information. But what
> about current implementation. I checked relevant source files and can't
> get immediate clue.

The current implementation has no idea of the external references
(though it's probably not too hard to implement).

Richard.

  reply	other threads:[~2010-05-26 16:08 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-05-26 16:03 Bingfeng Mei
2010-05-26 16:19 ` Richard Guenther [this message]
2010-05-27  8:10   ` Jan Hubicka
2010-06-08 13:48     ` Bingfeng Mei
2010-06-08 14:05       ` Richard Guenther
2010-06-08 14:22         ` Bingfeng Mei
2010-06-08 14:22           ` Richard Guenther
2010-06-08 14:58             ` Bingfeng Mei
2010-06-08 14:59               ` Richard Guenther
2010-06-09 20:46                 ` Cary Coutant
2010-06-10  2:29                   ` Richard Guenther
2010-06-10 11:57                   ` Bingfeng Mei

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