[lld] r195091 - Creating release_34 branch

[Bill Wendling]

On Nov 21, 2013, at 2:55 PM, Rui Ueyama <ruiu at google.com> wrote:

> 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. :)

Whether we submit binaries for it is one question. But I do like having all of the main projects branched when we do a release. I’ve been asked to do this before and it’s not a bad idea. It marks a point in time when the projects were in sync. :-)

-bw

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