[cfe-dev] [clang] Implementing autolink with LLVM bitcode objects

[Reid Kleckner via cfe-dev]

On Thu, Jan 7, 2016 at 8:07 AM, David Blaikie via cfe-dev <
cfe-dev at lists.llvm.org> wrote:

> Sounds plausible - as for which direction to go, I don't know (it's hardly
> my area of expertise) though the bitcode/module-agnostic version does seem
> preferable. Is there any prior art in the area? One or more linkers that
> already support the sort of feature you've described (so the linker looks
> for the special object file section with the info, rather than the compile
> driver?)
>

We already implement autolinking on Mac and Windows, but not Linux. So far
as I know there is no way for an ELF object file to tell the linker to pull
in more libraries, but MachO and COFF can do this.
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