Re: Is LTO_REFERENCE_INITCALL() still needed?

From: Andi Kleen
Date: Fri Jun 24 2016 - 17:08:03 EST


> But nothing quite obviously setting these upstream. I'm probably just
> missing something obvious though. Either way I figured now would be a
> good time to ask as I have other code that would use this, the linker
> table stuff I've been working. If we can avoid propagating more use of
> LTO_REFERENCE_INITCALL() then great. If we still need it its probably
> good to document this a bit more as can't see anything super clear.

It was a work around for a gcc 4.7 LTO problem. I guess it could be
dropped by now.

Yes I've been slow in submitting the LTO patches, even though they
have a quite active out of tree user base. Will try to do better.

-Andi