Re: LTO and LTO Plugin Reviewers

2009-10-07 Thread Rafael Espindola
> It sounds to me like this confusion comes from "LTO plugins".  Isn't > it just "LTO plugin"?  That is, a specific plugin? There is one GCC plugin. LLVM has another one. The fully qualified name is probably something like "gold plugin for gcc lto". > -- > Daniel Jacobowitz > CodeSourcery > Chee

Re: LTO and LTO Plugin Reviewers

2009-10-07 Thread Ian Lance Taylor
Diego Novillo writes: > On Wed, Oct 7, 2009 at 10:34, Daniel Jacobowitz wrote: >> On Wed, Oct 07, 2009 at 04:29:29PM +0200, Basile STARYNKEVITCH wrote: >>> I suppose LTO plugins means plugin dlopen-ed in lto-plugin/lto-symtab.c >> >> It sounds to me like this confusion comes from "LTO plugins".

Re: LTO and LTO Plugin Reviewers

2009-10-07 Thread Diego Novillo
On Wed, Oct 7, 2009 at 10:34, Daniel Jacobowitz wrote: > On Wed, Oct 07, 2009 at 04:29:29PM +0200, Basile STARYNKEVITCH wrote: >> I suppose LTO plugins means plugin dlopen-ed in lto-plugin/lto-symtab.c > > It sounds to me like this confusion comes from "LTO plugins".  Isn't > it just "LTO plugin"?

Re: LTO and LTO Plugin Reviewers

2009-10-07 Thread Daniel Jacobowitz
On Wed, Oct 07, 2009 at 04:29:29PM +0200, Basile STARYNKEVITCH wrote: > I suppose LTO plugins means plugin dlopen-ed in lto-plugin/lto-symtab.c It sounds to me like this confusion comes from "LTO plugins". Isn't it just "LTO plugin"? That is, a specific plugin? -- Daniel Jacobowitz CodeSourcer

Re: LTO and LTO Plugin Reviewers

2009-10-07 Thread Diego Novillo
On Wed, Oct 7, 2009 at 10:29, Basile STARYNKEVITCH wrote: > I suppose LTO plugins means plugin dlopen-ed in lto-plugin/lto-symtab.c No, it does not mean that. As I said already, these are plugins for gold, the linker. It is gold the one that uses it. Diego.

Re: LTO and LTO Plugin Reviewers

2009-10-07 Thread Basile STARYNKEVITCH
Diego Novillo wrote: On Wed, Oct 7, 2009 at 10:10, Basile STARYNKEVITCH wrote: Then I would imagine it requires a copyright transfer to FSF different of the one covering GCC development. The legal document covering my contribution cites specifically GCC (not binutils). Getting that copyright

Re: LTO and LTO Plugin Reviewers

2009-10-07 Thread Diego Novillo
On Wed, Oct 7, 2009 at 10:12, Ian Lance Taylor wrote: > Diego Novillo writes: > >> On Wed, Oct 7, 2009 at 09:55, Basile STARYNKEVITCH >> wrote: >> >>> Are LTO plugins fondamentally different from others, non LTO plugins? >> >> Yes, it should be probably be named 'linker' plugins.  It's a plugin

Re: LTO and LTO Plugin Reviewers

2009-10-07 Thread Ian Lance Taylor
Diego Novillo writes: > On Wed, Oct 7, 2009 at 09:55, Basile STARYNKEVITCH > wrote: > >> Are LTO plugins fondamentally different from others, non LTO plugins? > > Yes, it should be probably be named 'linker' plugins. It's a plugin > for gold to allow extraction of individual .o files out of sta

Re: LTO and LTO Plugin Reviewers

2009-10-07 Thread Diego Novillo
On Wed, Oct 7, 2009 at 10:10, Basile STARYNKEVITCH wrote: > Then I would imagine it requires a copyright transfer to FSF different of > the one covering GCC development. The legal document covering my > contribution cites specifically GCC (not binutils). > > Getting that copyright transfer signed

Re: LTO and LTO Plugin Reviewers

2009-10-07 Thread Richard Guenther
On Wed, 7 Oct 2009, David Edelsohn wrote: > I am pleased to announce that the GCC Steering Committee has > appointed Diego Novillo, Rafael Avila de Espindola, and Richard Guenther > as LTO Reviewers, and Rafael Avila de Espindola and Cary Coutant as > LTO Plugin Reviewers. > > Thanks

Re: LTO and LTO Plugin Reviewers

2009-10-07 Thread Basile STARYNKEVITCH
Diego Novillo wrote: On Wed, Oct 7, 2009 at 09:55, Basile STARYNKEVITCH wrote: Are LTO plugins fondamentally different from others, non LTO plugins? Yes, it should be probably be named 'linker' plugins. It's a plugin for gold to allow extraction of individual .o files out of static archives

Re: LTO and LTO Plugin Reviewers

2009-10-07 Thread Diego Novillo
On Wed, Oct 7, 2009 at 09:55, Basile STARYNKEVITCH wrote: > Are LTO plugins fondamentally different from others, non LTO plugins? Yes, it should be probably be named 'linker' plugins. It's a plugin for gold to allow extraction of individual .o files out of static archives during LTO compiles.

Re: LTO and LTO Plugin Reviewers

2009-10-07 Thread Basile STARYNKEVITCH
David Edelsohn wrote: I am pleased to announce that the GCC Steering Committee has appointed Diego Novillo, Rafael Avila de Espindola, and Richard Guenther as LTO Reviewers, and Rafael Avila de Espindola and Cary Coutant as LTO Plugin Reviewers. Sorry, but what exactly are LTO plugins?

LTO and LTO Plugin Reviewers

2009-10-07 Thread David Edelsohn
I am pleased to announce that the GCC Steering Committee has appointed Diego Novillo, Rafael Avila de Espindola, and Richard Guenther as LTO Reviewers, and Rafael Avila de Espindola and Cary Coutant as LTO Plugin Reviewers. Thanks to everyone for their hard work bringing LTO to GCC