Re: [PATCH v7 02/17] kbuild: add support for Clang LTO

From: Kees Cook
Date: Fri Nov 20 2020 - 14:47:25 EST


On Fri, Nov 20, 2020 at 08:23:11AM -0800, Sami Tolvanen wrote:
> Changing the ThinLTO config to a choice and moving it after the main
> LTO config sounds like a good idea to me. I'll see if I can change
> this in v8. Thanks!

Originally, I thought this might be a bit ugly once GCC LTO is added,
but this could be just a choice like we're done for the stack
initialization. Something like an "LTO" choice of NONE, CLANG_FULL,
CLANG_THIN, and in the future GCC, etc.

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Kees Cook