[Bug binutils/20343] New: Document how to use LTO

[dilyan.palauzov at aegee dot org]

https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=20343

            Bug ID: 20343
           Summary: Document how to use LTO
           Product: binutils
           Version: unspecified
            Status: UNCONFIRMED
          Severity: normal
          Priority: P2
         Component: binutils
          Assignee: unassigned at sourceware dot org
          Reporter: dilyan.palauzov at aegee dot org
  Target Milestone: ---

Please document what the user has to do, in order to use LTO with ld, gold, nm,
ar, ranlib in regards to the -?-plugin option.  In particular, 

* when is 'compiler -print-prog-name=...' called to find the plugin,
* if it is not called by nm, ar, ranlib, how to the latter find the linker
plugin
* how can different plugins coexist (for gcc and clang, and for different
versions of gcc)
* how is the directory bfd-plugins supposed to be used
* in which binutils versions have the aforementioned behaviours changed

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