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First pass at a document describing how to achieve LTO on Linux with gold.

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<title>LLVM gold plugin</title>
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<div class="doc_title">LLVM gold plugin</div>
<ol>
<li><a href="#introduction">Introduction</a></li>
<li><a href="#build">How to build it</a></li>
<li><a href="#usage">Usage</a></li>
<li><a href="#licensing">Licensing</a></li>
</ol>
<div class="doc_author">Written by Nick Lewycky</div>
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<div class="doc_section"><a name="introduction">Introduction</a></div>
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<div class="doc_text">
<p>Building with link time optimization requires cooperation with the
system linker. To support LTO on Linux systems, we requires that you use
<a href="http://sourceware.org/binutils">gold</a> which has support for
LTO via plugins. This is the same system used by the upcoming
<a href="http://gcc.gnu.org/wiki/LinkTimeOptimization">GCC LTO</a>
support.</p>
<p>The LLVMgold plugin implements the gold
<a href="http://gcc.gnu.org/wiki/whopr/driver">plugin interface</a> on
top of
<a href="http://llvm.org/docs/LinkTimeOptimization.html#lto">libLTO</a>.
The same plugin can also be used by other tools such as <tt>ar</tt> and
<tt>nm</tt>.
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<div class="doc_section"><a name="build">How to build it</a></div>
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<p>You need to build gold with plugin support and build the LLVMgold
plugin.</p>
<ul>
<li>Build gold with plugin support:
<pre class="doc_code">
mkdir binutils
cd binutils
cvs -z 9 -d :pserver:anoncvs@sourceware.org:/cvs/src login
<em>{enter "anoncvs" as the password}</em>
cvs -z 9 -d :pserver:anoncvs@sourceware.org:/cvs/src co src
mkdir build
cd build
../src/configure --enable-gold --enable-plugins
make all-gold
</pre>
That should leave you with binutils/build/gold/ld-new which supports the
-plugin option.
<li>Build LLVMgold. Configure LLVM with
<tt>--with-binutils-include=/path/to/binutils/src/include</tt> and run
<tt>make</tt>.
</ul>
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<div class="doc_section"><a name="usage">Usage</a></div>
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<div class="doc_text">
<p>The linker takes a <tt>-plugin</tt> option that points to the path of
the plugin <tt>.so</tt> file. To find out what link command <tt>gcc</tt>
would run in a given situation, run <tt>gcc -v <em>[...]</em></tt> and look
for the line where it runs <tt>collect2</tt>. Replace that with
<tt>ld-new -plugin /path/to/LLVMgold.so</tt> to test it out. Once you're
ready to switch to using gold, backup your existing <tt>/usr/bin/ld</tt>
then replace it with <tt>ld-new</tt>.</p>
<p>You can produce bitcode files from <tt>llvm-gcc</tt> using
<tt>-emit-llvm</tt> or <tt>-flto</tt> or <tt>-O4</tt> which is equivalent
to <tt>-O3 -flto</tt>.</p>
<p><tt>llvm-gcc</tt> has a <tt>-use-gold-plugin</tt> option which looks
for the gold plugin in the same directories as it looks for <tt>cc1</tt>.
It will not look for an alternate linker, which is why you need gold to be
the installed system linker in your path.</p>
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<div class="doc_section"><a name="licensing">Licensing</a></div>
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<div class="doc_text">
Gold is licensed under the GPLv3. LLVMgold uses the interface file
<tt>plugin-api.h</tt> from gold which means that the resulting LLVMgold.so
binary is also GPLv3. This can still be used to link non-GPLv3 programs just
as much as gold could without the plugin.
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