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From:   Nick Desaulniers <ndesaulniers@google.com>
Date:   Wed, 24 Jun 2020 13:57:11 -0700
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Subject: Re: [PATCH 13/22] scripts/mod: disable LTO for empty.c
To:     Sami Tolvanen <samitolvanen@google.com>
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On Wed, Jun 24, 2020 at 1:33 PM Sami Tolvanen <samitolvanen@google.com> wrote:
>
> With CONFIG_LTO_CLANG, clang generates LLVM IR instead of ELF object
> files. As empty.o is used for probing target properties, disable LTO
> for it to produce an object file instead.
>
> Signed-off-by: Sami Tolvanen <samitolvanen@google.com>

Reviewed-by: Nick Desaulniers <ndesaulniers@google.com>

> ---
>  scripts/mod/Makefile | 1 +
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)
>
> diff --git a/scripts/mod/Makefile b/scripts/mod/Makefile
> index 296b6a3878b2..b6e3b40c6eeb 100644
> --- a/scripts/mod/Makefile
> +++ b/scripts/mod/Makefile
> @@ -1,5 +1,6 @@
>  # SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0
>  OBJECT_FILES_NON_STANDARD := y
> +CFLAGS_REMOVE_empty.o += $(CC_FLAGS_LTO)
>
>  hostprogs      := modpost mk_elfconfig
>  always-y       := $(hostprogs) empty.o
> --
> 2.27.0.212.ge8ba1cc988-goog
>


-- 
Thanks,
~Nick Desaulniers