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From: Paolo Bonzini <bonzini@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Don't pass CFLAGS to the linker
Date: Sat, 09 Jan 2010 11:32:07 +0100
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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