LTO with static libraries

Ralf Corsepius ralf.corsepius at rtems.org
Tue Feb 12 18:03:14 UTC 2013


On 02/12/2013 04:50 PM, Sebastian Huber wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I currently do some testing with PowerPC GCC 4.8.  On PowerPC and ARM
> RTEMS a lot of LTO (link time optimization) tests fail.

On the functional side LTO is a wasp's nest and even more so on the 
build-host infrastructural side.

These are the primary reasons, I resorted to actively disable it in my 
packages - Whether LTO is worth it on the functional level is a 
different matters and (IMO) yet unanswered question.

Ralf





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