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Roman Divacky rdivacky at FreeBSD.org
Wed Jun 10 08:52:57 UTC 2009


On Fri, Jun 05, 2009 at 09:45:44AM +0200, Erik Cederstrand wrote:
> Hi Roman
> 
> Den 04/06/2009 kl. 14.38 skrev Roman Divacky:
> >
> >you could use llvm-ld (see the wiki for instructions how to do it).  
> >there's also some
> >effort to make gnu ld usable with llvm LTO and I guess the patch  
> >could be backported
> >to our ld. I guess
> 
> As I understand the reply from Eli Friedman[1] this is not possible  
> without at least some hacking.
> 
> The LTO work in GNU ld[2] is under GPLv3[3], as is gold[4], which  
> makes backporting patches a sticky issue.

we can ask the person who did the gnu ld work to relicense the one patch
under gplv2


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