[PATCH] D36468: [ELF] - Allow discard COMMON from linkerscript.

[George Rimar via Phabricator via llvm-commits]

grimar added a comment.

In https://reviews.llvm.org/D36468#835412, @davide wrote:

> What's the use case for discarding common symbols?


I do not know about real use case, I worked on a https://reviews.llvm.org/D36466 and tried to discard COMMON during work on that
patch to see what -Map will contain, but LLD crashed here :) 
We can probably restrict discarding COMMON instead, though it will be 1 line fix too.

> Also, when you say "ignores such scripts" you mean that `gold` accepts this syntax and doesn't discard the common?

Yes.


https://reviews.llvm.org/D36468