build gcc with lto support
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Description
The included gcc wasn't built with the linker plugin, so enabling link-time optimization (-flto) fails.
dlopen:'.../arduino-1.6.1/hardware/tools/esp8266/xtensa-lx106-elf/bin/../libexec/gcc/xtensa-lx106-elf/4.8.2/liblto_plugin-0.dll': The specified module could not be found.
Lto not only reduces code size, it can significantly improve performance by doing constant folding for function calls like digitalWrite.
http://nerdralph.blogspot.ca/2014/04/gcc-link-time-optimization-can-fix-bad.html
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