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Hi, I'm working on enabling thinLTO for our custom backend on LLVM-8 with lld to get code size benefits from dead symbol elimination. The code in LTO::run() of LTO.cpp confuses me that, even though thinLTO is specified, runRegularLTO() will be run first and its return value determines whether runThinLTO() will be executed. My question is if it's clearly known that thinLTO is used, is it still necessary to execute runRegularLTO()?If it is, what's the reason behind? For now our custom backend, where distributed thinLTO is adopted, it works fine as I removed the line executing runRegularLTO...

...Hi, I'm working on enabling thinLTO for our custom backend on LLVM-8 with lld to get code size benefits from dead symbol elimination. The code in LTO::run() of LTO.cpp confuses me that, even though thinLTO is specified, runRegularLTO() will be run first and its return value determines whether runThinLTO() will be executed. My question is if it's clearly known that thinLTO is used, is it still necessary to execute runRegularLTO()?If it is, what's the reason behind? This is to handle the case where the LTO link is given a mix of regular and thin LTO bitcode - it should do regular LTO on th...