[PATCH] D14382: [ELF2] - Basic implementation of -r/--relocatable

Rui Ueyama via llvm-commits llvm-commits at lists.llvm.org
Thu Nov 5 10:30:39 PST 2015


On Thu, Nov 5, 2015 at 10:21 AM, George Rimar <grimar at accesssoftek.com>
wrote:

> >Really? Then what's the point of  -r from the users' perspective compared
> to ar?
>
> Just as a guess - if we have huge amount of files then probably ar will
> work slower.


I'm not sure about that. I guess if ld -r is better than ar, large projects
like LLVM would have used that instead of ar.
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