Re: Problems with -Ofast

[Andi Kleen <ak@xxxxxxx>]

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