News [Phoronix] Mesa Will Now Prevent Compiling With LTO Due To "Random Impossible-To-Debug Bugs"

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While link-time optimizations "LTO" can deliver some nice performance benefits out of this compiler optimization technique, it can make debugging said binaries more challenging. Due to various bugs in Mesa being attributed to the use of compiler link-time optimizations when compiling Mesa, the builds are being blocked on using LTO...

Source: https://www.phoronix.com/news/Mesa-No-Build-LTO

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