[PATCH] D24725: [ELF] - Linkerscript: implemented --orphan-handling command line option.

George Rimar via llvm-commits llvm-commits at lists.llvm.org
Mon Sep 19 07:41:26 PDT 2016


grimar added a comment.

In https://reviews.llvm.org/D24725#546280, @davide wrote:

> I think "error" is good and definitely would've helped catching bugs while we were bringing the FreeBSD kernel up&running with lld.
>  "discard" seems like a dangerous semantic, at least to me, so I'd like to not implement it, at least for now. Do you have a real use case when it's ok to drop input sections if there's no room to place them in the output?


I think it is not about case when "no room", but about all orphans if any. We can remove discard mode, I do not know if it is useful or not, just implemented all what ld has.


https://reviews.llvm.org/D24725





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