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Re: ld -plugin option
- From: "H.J. Lu" <hjl dot tools at gmail dot com>
- To: Yuanfang Chen <cyfmxc at gmail dot com>
- Cc: Andrew Pinski <pinskia at gmail dot com>, binutils <binutils at sourceware dot org>
- Date: Wed, 5 Feb 2014 16:47:44 -0800
- Subject: Re: ld -plugin option
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On Wed, Feb 5, 2014 at 4:33 PM, Yuanfang Chen <cyfmxc@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Wed, Feb 5, 2014 at 7:17 PM, Andrew Pinski <pinskia@gmail.com> wrote:
>> On Wed, Feb 5, 2014 at 4:07 PM, Yuanfang Chen <cyfmxc@gmail.com> wrote:
>>> Hello,
>>>
>>> Maybe this is a silly question, however, it annoys me today for too
>>> long. I'm using ld 2.24, which shows that it supports '-plugin'
>>> option by 'ld --help |grep plugin', however 'ld -plugin' returns
>>> "unrecognized option '-plugin'". I really don't know where the
>>> problem is. Another question is that is the plugin interface
>>> supported by ld and ld.gold the same?
>>
>> Yes the interfaces is the same. The issue you are having is -plugin
>> takes an argument and you are not supplying an option to the -plugin
>> option.
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Andrew Pinski
>
> Well, that's really confusing, I was expecting something like 'missing
> arguments' like the ld.gold does. :-)
>
> I'am asking this because when I'm doing this: (all are non binary object)
> ld.gold -plugin=/path/to/plugin a.o b.o c.o
> everything goes fine.
>
> but
> ld -plugin=/path/to/plugin a.o b.o c.o
> complains b.o: file not recognized: File format not recognized
>
How did you configure binutils? Did you use --enable-plugins?
--
H.J.