"H.J. Lu" <[email protected]> writes: > On Mon, Dec 6, 2010 at 3:54 PM, Ian Lance Taylor <[email protected]> wrote: >> Alan Modra <[email protected]> writes: >> >>> On Mon, Dec 06, 2010 at 09:57:14AM -0800, H.J. Lu wrote: >>>> Personally, I think 2 stage linking is one way to fix this issue. >>> >>> Ian has stated that he thinks this is a really bad idea. I haven't >>> approved the patch because I value Ian's opinion, and can see why he >>> thinks it is the wrong way to go. On the other hand, BFD is full of >>> bad ideas.. I'm not strongly opposed to your patch myself. >> >> Why don't we spend a short amount of time fixing these relatively minor >> issues in lto-plugin without going all the way to two-stage linking? > > The issues may be "relatively minor". But proper fix without > two-stage linking may be quite tricky.
I see no particular reason why that should be the case. The issues are conceptually simple. Ian
