From: Paolo Bonzini <bonzini@gnu.org>
Date: Sat, 09 Jan 2010 10:32:07 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Don't pass CFLAGS to the linker
Message-ID: <4B485B27.2020404@gnu.org>
In-Reply-To: <1261896918-1953-1-git-send-email-tom@dbservice.com>

On 12/27/2009 07:55 AM, Tomas Carnecky wrote:
> Signed-off-by: Tomas Carnecky<tom@dbservice.com>
> ---
>
> I don't remember exactly which tool had problems with CFLAGS being passed
> to the linker. Maybe it was the clang static analyzer, or some other
> tool that I let run on git.git. Anyway, I don't think there's any
> reason to pass CFLAGS to the linker.

One reason is if you want to use GCC's upcoming link-time optimization 
(-flto).

Paolo