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Date: Fri, 20 Nov 2020 13:29:35 -0700
From: Nathan Chancellor <natechancellor@...il.com>
To: Kees Cook <keescook@...omium.org>
Cc: Sami Tolvanen <samitolvanen@...gle.com>,
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Subject: Re: [PATCH v7 02/17] kbuild: add support for Clang LTO
On Fri, Nov 20, 2020 at 11:47:21AM -0800, Kees Cook wrote:
> 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.
Having two separate choices might be a little bit cleaner though? One
for the compiler (LTO_CLANG versus LTO_GCC) and one for the type
(THINLTO versus FULLLTO). The type one could just have a "depends on
CC_IS_CLANG" to ensure it only showed up when needed.
Cheers,
Nathan
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