[lld] r195091 - Creating release_34 branch

[Rui Ueyama]

On Thu, Nov 21, 2013 at 2:47 PM, Shankar Easwaran
<shankare at codeaurora.org>wrote:

> Hi Rui,
>
>
> On 11/21/2013 4:25 PM, Rui Ueyama wrote:
>
>> Yeah, I'm skeptical about a real value of including the LLD in the 3.4
>> release. The linker is not still useful. Also, when the branch was cut,
>> there was a critical bug in the LLD that it couldn't link a large
>> executable if it contains too many relocations, but I don't think we want
>> to cherry pick the fix and maintain the release branch.
>>
> The RoundTrip YAML/Native passes are only run in DEBUG mode. lld still
> should link a large executable like itself without the patch in release
> mode. Am I missing something ?
>

Ah, that's a good point. So, yeah, the LLD can link large programs. I stand
corrected. :)
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