[lld] r193301 - [Driver] Change UniversalDriver to use TD file.

Rafael EspĂ­ndola rafael.espindola at gmail.com
Wed Oct 23 23:56:05 PDT 2013


> core was supposed to be the "one true" flavor that would potentially be the "native" command line for lld in the absence of a need for legacy compatibility and for the future.

Is that realistic? On the clang side there was some discussion about
adding a clean command line interface, but the added value of doing so
seemed small.

>From http://lists.cs.uiuc.edu/pipermail/cfe-dev/2011-November/018588.html

However, the challenge then becomes "why would anyone use the 'nice'
one"?  It is likely to get less development and features, and users of
the compiler don't care about academic purity of the implementation
details.  Any features of the 'nice' driver would also need to
supported by the 'ugly' driver also, so I don't see that introducing a
new driver is really all that useful.

Cheers,
Rafael



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