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From:   Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
To:     "Ross A. Towle" <rat@cchkms.engr.sgi.com>
Cc:     pro64-support@oss.sgi.com, Wayne Vieira <waynev@sgi.com>
Subject: Re: Problems with -Ofast
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On Sun, Feb 11, 2001 at 09:34:37PM -0800, Ross A. Towle wrote:
> -Ofast turns on IPA.  IPA requires the use of a modified linker
> which is called ipa_link.  This has not been part of the Pro64
> releases.  We have been trying for over 9 months to get the changes
> included in the GNU linker.  Due to the lack of success we will
> be including the sources for ipa_link with the upcoming release
> 0.13 of Pro64.

I'm curious: what were the main problems in porting to BFD/GNU ld?


-Andi