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Re: Is LTO_REFERENCE_INITCALL() still needed?

From Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>
Newsgroups linux.kernel
Subject Re: Is LTO_REFERENCE_INITCALL() still needed?
Date 2016-06-24 23:10 +0200
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> 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

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Is LTO_REFERENCE_INITCALL() still needed? "Luis R. Rodriguez" <mcgrof@kernel.org> - 2016-06-24 01:40 +0200
  Re: Is LTO_REFERENCE_INITCALL() still needed? Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org> - 2016-06-24 23:10 +0200
    Re: Is LTO_REFERENCE_INITCALL() still needed? "Luis R. Rodriguez" <mcgrof@kernel.org> - 2016-06-28 02:50 +0200
      [PATCH] x86: remove LTO flags "Luis R. Rodriguez" <mcgrof@kernel.org> - 2016-07-07 02:30 +0200
        Re: [PATCH] x86: remove LTO flags Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org> - 2016-07-07 04:00 +0200
          [PATCH v2] x86: remove LTO_REFERENCE_INITCALL() "Luis R. Rodriguez" <mcgrof@kernel.org> - 2016-07-07 18:10 +0200
            Re: [PATCH v2] x86: remove LTO_REFERENCE_INITCALL() Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org> - 2016-07-07 18:40 +0200

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