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authoruros <uros@138bc75d-0d04-0410-961f-82ee72b054a4>2015-03-26 08:18:56 +0000
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* doc/install.texi (Building a native compiler): Document new
bootstrap-lto-noplugin configuration. Mention that bootstrap-lto configuration assumes that the host supports the linker plugin. git-svn-id: svn+ssh://gcc.gnu.org/svn/gcc/trunk@221688 138bc75d-0d04-0410-961f-82ee72b054a4
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@@ -2525,7 +2525,10 @@ version 2.21 or later).
@item @samp{bootstrap-lto-noplugin}
This option is similar to @code{bootstrap-lto}, but is intended for
-hosts that do not support the linker plugin.
+hosts that do not support the linker plugin. Please note that static
+libraries are not compiled with link time optimizations without
+linker plugin. Since GCC middle-end and back-end are in libbackend.a,
+it means that only part of the frontend is actually LTO optimized.
@item @samp{bootstrap-debug}
Verifies that the compiler generates the same executable code, whether