Disable the LTO warning for now

Author: antoyo

src/back/write.rs

@@ -167,6 +167,10 @@ pub(crate) unsafe fn codegen(
 
                         // NOTE: without -fuse-linker-plugin, we get the following error:
                         // lto1: internal compiler error: decompressed stream: Destination buffer is too small
+                        // TODO: since we do not do LTO when the linker is invoked anymore, perhaps
+                        // the following flag is not necessary anymore.
+                        // TODO: also, perhaps compiling the gcc driver in the CI is not necessary
+                        // anymore.
                         context.add_driver_option("-fuse-linker-plugin");
                     }
 
@@ -187,8 +191,17 @@ pub(crate) unsafe fn codegen(
                     let path = obj_out.to_str().expect("path to str");
 
                     let lto_path = format!("{}.lto", path);
+                    //eprintln!("Before Executable");
+                    // FIXME: The LTO frontend generates the following warning:
+                    // ../build_sysroot/sysroot_src/library/core/src/num/dec2flt/lemire.rs:150:15: warning: type of ‘_ZN4core3num7dec2flt5table17POWER_OF_FIVE_12817ha449a68fb31379e4E’ does not match original declaration [-Wlto-type-mismatch]
+                    // 150 |     let (lo5, hi5) = POWER_OF_FIVE_128[index];
+                    //     |               ^
+                    // lto1: note: ‘_ZN4core3num7dec2flt5table17POWER_OF_FIVE_12817ha449a68fb31379e4E’ was previously declared here
+                    //
+                    // This option is to mute it to make the UI tests pass with LTO enabled.
+                    context.add_driver_option("-Wno-lto-type-mismatch");
                     context.compile_to_file(OutputKind::Executable, &lto_path);
-                    //println!("****************************************************************************************************");
+                    //eprintln!("****************************************************************************************************");
 
                     let context = Context::default(); // TODO: might need to set some other flags from new_context.
                     //context.add_driver_option("-v");