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To: Steven Bosscher <stevenb.gcc@gmail.com>
Cc: Rafael Espindola <espindola@google.com>, gcc@gcc.gnu.org
Subject: Re: -use-linker-plugin passed to ld
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From: Ian Lance Taylor <iant@google.com>
Date: Fri, 23 Oct 2009 19:07:00 -0000
In-Reply-To: <571f6b510910231135y2e5be00eq2247b3878b7cccbd@mail.gmail.com> (Steven Bosscher's message of "Fri\, 23 Oct 2009 20\:35\:38 +0200")
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Steven Bosscher <stevenb.gcc@gmail.com> writes:

> On Fri, Oct 23, 2009 at 8:21 PM, Ian Lance Taylor <iant@google.com> wrote:
>> Rafael Espindola <espindola@google.com> writes:
>>
>>> 2009-10-23 =C2=A0Rafael Avila de Espindola =C2=A0<espindola@google.com>
>>>
>>> =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0 * gcc.c (LINK_COMMAND_SPEC): Remove -use-linker-pl=
ugin from the command
>>> =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0 line.
>>
>> This is OK if it passes bootstrap and if nobody objects in 24 hours.
>
>
> I was just wondering why this is not a -f* flag, e.g. -fuse-linker-plugin?

I thought about that too, but a -f flag would be passed to the
middle-end, where it does not make any sense.  We could make it a -f
flag anyhow, of course, and just explicitly ignore it in the
middle-end.

Any opinions on the best user interface for this?

Ian